Here is the full List … available through open source. I’m certain there is many many more.
Category 1: Parliamentary Standards Breaches
Nigel Farage breached the MPs' Code of Conduct 17 times for failing to register £384,000 in undeclared income from GB News, a gold dealer, Google, and Cameo. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards found the breaches were inadvertent due to poor administration. January 2026.
Category 2: Financial Misconduct and Tax Investigations
Richard Tice failed to pay around £98,000 in corporation tax plus £27,000 in interest through four shell companies. Between 2020 and 2022, those companies transferred over £1.1 million to Reform UK. The Liberal Democrats formally requested an HMRC investigation. 2025 to 2026.
James McMurdock, elected as a Reform MP, had a past assault conviction and faced scrutiny over £70,000 in Covid loans. He voluntarily gave up the party whip and sits as an independent. 2024 to 2025.
Dave Knight, a Doncaster councillor, was suspended for setting up an unauthorised company to capitalise on council business related to Doncaster-Sheffield Airport. 2025.
Category 3: Espionage and National Security
Nathan Gill, former Reform UK leader in Wales and former MEP, accepted £40,000 in Russian-linked bribes between December 2018 and July 2019. He made pro-Kremlin speeches in the European Parliament, hosted a Putin ally, and tried to recruit other MEPs. The FBI found incriminating messages on a Russian agent's phone. Police found €5,000 and $5,000 in cash at his home. He was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison in November 2025.
Category 4: Electoral Investigations and Offences
Greater Manchester Police opened an investigation into Reform UK for sending election letters without legal imprints during the Gorton and Denton by-election. The letters appeared to come from a "concerned neighbour" but were paid for by the party. February 2026. Investigation ongoing.
Andy Osborn, a Cambridgeshire councillor, was found guilty of making a false statement under the Representation of the People Act 1983. He posted a fake claim that a Conservative rival was sacked for fraud. He also told a black mayor to "speak English." He was convicted, fined £1,800, and forced to vacate his seat. April 2026.
Reform UK's "family voting" complaint during the Gorton and Denton by-election was investigated by Greater Manchester Police and dismissed due to lack of evidence. No verbal instruction or coercion was witnessed, and no descriptions or timings could be provided. February to March 2026.
The Electoral Commission closed its investigation into Nigel Farage's Clacton election spending with no action taken, finding no credible evidence of overspending or omitted declarations. December 2025.
Category 5: Unpaid Promises and Misleading Raffles
Reform UK ran an energy-bill raffle promising to pay the bills for a full year for one winner and their entire street. After the winners were announced, several neighbours reported receiving no letter and no payment. Greater Manchester Police confirmed they received a report and are reviewing the matter. March 2026.
Category 6: Violence and Threats
John Allen, a Northumberland councillor, posted threats to shoot or hang Keir Starmer. He also made racist jokes about black men, warned that a Muslim should not be party chair, complained about a chair's sexual orientation, insisted a Hindu could not relate to British people, and condemned LGBT Brits as "perverts." He was suspended ten days after exposure. September 2025.
Robert Bloom, a North Northamptonshire councillor, resigned after allegedly racially abusing a neighbour and threatening to set the English Defence League on them. He used racial slurs. August 2025.
Category 7: Racism and Xenophobia
Ian Cooper, leader of Staffordshire County Council, posted racist abuse telling a Black academic to "f**k off back to Nigeria." He wrote that people from the "Global Majority South" are intent on colonising the UK. He denied a British-born broadcaster could be English, called Sadiq Khan a "narcissistic Pakistani," and said David Lammy should not sit in Parliament. December 2025.
James Catton, a Reform donor manager, was exposed for advocating the deportation of 10 million people and implying violence as the alternative, writing that the alternative "cannot be written in YouTube comments." He deleted his LinkedIn and was removed from party materials. September 2025.
Mark Broadhurst, a Doncaster councillor, was expelled after saying Hitler "would have been a legend" if he had killed Muslims instead of Jews. May 31, 2025.
Donna Edmunds, a candidate for Shropshire, was suspended after proposing statues of Tommy Robinson, the convicted fraudster and former English Defence League leader, in every British town. She had already announced plans to defect to another party. June 2025.
David Hyden-Milakovic, Staffordshire County Organiser, resigned after his links to the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative were revealed. January 2025.
Ben Rowe, a Plymouth candidate, was expelled for accusing "the Jews" of creating division by forcing other races on Western societies and suggesting COVID had a "Hebrew" source. April 2026.
Nathaniel Menday, a Sheffield candidate, was expelled for describing himself as an "ethno-nationalist," praising Albert Speer's Nazi architecture, and suggesting Jewish people were responsible for the antisemitism they suffer. April 2026.
Paul Hewson, a Barking and Dagenham candidate, was expelled for repeatedly expressing support for Enoch Powell and Tommy Robinson, posting "free Tommy" and "listen to Tommy." April 2026.
David Robert Prior, a Gateshead candidate, was expelled after his previous membership in the far-right British National Party was uncovered, contradicting Farage's "golden rule" that former BNP activists are banned. April 2026.
George Parnell, a Fleet candidate, was expelled after his name appeared on a leaked BNP membership list as an "activist." April 2026.
John Black, a Blackburn candidate, was expelled after his name appeared on a leaked BNP membership list. April 2026.
Category 8: Homophobia and Anti-LGBT Conduct
John Allen (already listed in Category 6) also condemned LGBT Brits as "perverts." September 2025.
Sheffield role-play expulsions – Four members were permanently expelled after an interview role-play involving a gay couple was deemed to have crossed professional boundaries. The expelled members provided video evidence showing the alleged misconduct did not happen as claimed. They also said Reform failed to follow its own constitution. 2025.
Category 9: Incompetence and Administrative Failures
Luke Shingler, a Reform candidate for Warwickshire who worked for the RAF, discovered too late that serving military personnel cannot join political parties. He had to sit as an independent. 2024.
Reform's Welsh manifesto misspelled two of three Welsh words on the front cover while promising to support the Welsh language, with no new policies to do so. March 2026.
Malcolm Offord, Reform Scotland leader, admitted that problematic social media posts were found during vetting but candidates were still selected, describing the comments as "intemperate" but candidates as "real people who said real things in a past life." March 2026.
Category 10: Internal Party Turmoil and Mass Expulsions
Approximately one in eighteen Reform councillors have been suspended, expelled, or resigned since the local elections in May 2025. That is about 38 out of 677.
Kent "civil war" – Four councillors were suspended and over five expelled after a leaked video showed the local party leader swearing at members. The local party was described as a "chaotic shambles." 2025.
Warwickshire leadership crisis – George Finch, the local party leader, survived a no-confidence vote by a single vote. An independent investigator found he had violated the code of conduct for attacks on officers and Warwickshire Police. 2025.
Richard "Dicky" Eminson, a Norwich candidate, posed naked online and took a selfie with Tommy Robinson, calling him an "icon." Because he was already nominated, his name could not be removed from the ballot, but he faces disciplinary action and likely removal of the whip after polling day. April 2026.
Category 11: Party Admissions of Failure
Nigel Farage admitted the party's vetting process was "piss poor" in the past, saying: "Nothing angers me more than all the work that I put in for this being let down by people who haven't told us the truth." January 2026.
A Reform councillor told BBC Radio Wales that the party had turned down "genuinely good people" due to old social media posts, because "digital is forever." 2025.
An expelled councillor from County Durham posted online that "Reform are amateur and inexperienced" and that voting for them gets you "clueless nobodies." 2025.
Category 12: Policy Promises Pulled Back
Reform UK abandoned its pledge to nationalise water and energy. March 2026.
Reform UK walked back its £90 billion tax-cut pledge from the 2024 manifesto, with Farage admitting it was "not realistic." 2024 to 2025.
Reform UK reversed its promise to scrap the two-child benefit cap and pledged to reintroduce it. February 2026.
Reform-run councils raised council tax despite promising freezes or cuts. 2025 to 2026.
Seven of nine Reform-run councils scrapped climate targets or removed climate content from strategy documents. In Derbyshire, the climate change strategy was renamed and all references to net zero and carbon emissions were removed. 2025.
Climate change denial was expressed by Reform councillors in at least five councils: Kent, Durham, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Lancashire. Kent Council noted "the unproven view of anthropogenic climate change" in a motion to rescind its Climate Emergency Declaration. 2025.
Nigel Farage announced a mass-deportation plan promising five flights daily and 24,000 detention places. Experts showed the plan was unworkable because current capacity is only 2,500 beds, and Farage admitted leaving the ECHR to enable it would take a "long" time. August 2025.
Reform UK continued calling for HS2 to be scrapped despite expert warnings that cancellation would waste billions already spent and the Labour government committing to completing the rail link. 2025 to 2026.
Nigel Farage's pledge to abolish the BBC licence fee softened into talk of a "slimmed-down" BBC with no workable replacement funding model. 2024 to 2026.
Reform UK's promise to leave the European Convention on Human Rights remained without a workable timeline. 2024 to 2026.
Category 13: Misinformation and False Claims
Kent County Council fabricated £39.5 million in net zero savings by claiming scrapping projects would save money when neither project had a business case, identified funding, or even existed as approved projects. 2025.
Nigel Farage falsely claimed ending Indefinite Leave to Remain would save £234 billion in benefits. The figure came from a Centre for Policy Studies report which the think tank later withdrew. Full Fact confirmed the figure was a net lifetime fiscal cost estimate, not benefit savings. September 2025.
A fake Reform manifesto was shared online by a Facebook page that had previously been a Plaid Cymru supporter page and a pro-Brexit Party page. The fake document claimed Reform would abolish the Senedd, remove free prescriptions, and scrap Welsh sports teams. None of these policies appeared in the real manifesto. April 2026.
A page called Doge Wales shared misleading claims that Wales' 20mph policy cost £9 billion. The actual implementation cost was £34 million. The £9 billion was a worst-case projection over 30 years. 2026.
Nigel Farage denied promising council tax freezes despite leaflets bearing his photograph and the word "cut." He said: "I never once said we would cut council tax" and "nothing with my name ever went on that." 2026.
Reform UK claimed missing election imprints on campaign letters were a printing error. The printer said it "took full responsibility" for the error, but the party remains under police investigation. February 2026.
Reform UK claimed "family voting" occurred in Gorton and Denton, but police investigated and found no evidence, concluding there was "no evidence to suggest any intent to influence or refrain a person from voting." February to LMarch 2026.
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