Reform’s Makerfield candidate was a Remainer

Robert Kenyon, Reform’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, is reported to have voted to remain in the European Union. This could be something of a problem too because Reform wouldn’t exist if not for the campaign to leave the EU.

🚨 NEW: Reform UK's Makerfield candidate Robert Kenyon said in 2019 that he did not vote for Brexit

"Anyone who thinks I love Trump, voted Brexit… is wrong… I woke up the day after Brexit shitting myself to what was voted for"

[@thetimes]

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 26, 2026

Reform Remainiac

As Skwawkbox reported for the Canary, Kenyon has links to known fascists and they’re not being exposed for the first time.

Kenyon stood, coming second, in the seat in the 2024 general election.

At that campaign, Searchlight Magazine pointed out his social media links to the leader of the British fascist movement.

🟣 MAKERFIELD: I suspect Robert Kenyon won't last long as Reform candidate. When Kenyon stood here in 2024, the anti-fascist group Searchlight tweeted he was Facebook friend of Gary Raikes, leader of New British Union, reincarnation of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists https://t.co/6sEsa52izQ

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) May 19, 2026

Kenyon also made obscene comments about TV host Carol Vorderman.

But the guy who boasted he wanted to smell and lick Carol Vorderman's a******e passed with flying colours. https://t.co/JGhTe28x7S

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 26, 2026

Of course, the fact that Kenyon voted to remain in the EU doesn’t mean he still feels that way. The problem is Reform treats a vote for remain as the gravest of political sins, and it depicts everyone who sided with the EU as being forever tainted by that decision.

The official Prime Minister is just a puppet.
The actual Prime Minister is a globalist Remainer.
The wannabe Prime Minister is a woke Rejoiner.

Our country needs some real leadership.

➡️ Join Reform UK today: https://t.co/I1TU7UF9tq pic.twitter.com/nOjuDoPkLb

— Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) October 19, 2022

Remainer Jeremy Hunt is the new Chancellor, joining forces with our Remainer PM.

This Conservative party has no authority, no decency and has failed our country.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) October 14, 2022

Nigel Farage has long sought to rid British politics of the Remainiacs. Now, he’s trying to force one upon the people of Makerfield. The constituency is a Brexiteer fortress too, with 66% having voted in favour of leaving.

We don’t know how he did it, but Farage managed to find one of the few people there who voted against him!

Freedom

Earlier this month, the Times’ Steven Swinford reported:

Reform UK will put Brexit at the heart of the Makerfield by-election campaign after interventions from Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting on rejoining the EU over the weekend

They will link it directly to free movement – accusing Burnham of wanting to ‘open the borders up to 500 million people’. This is a seat where two-thirds of voters backed Brexit at the EU referendum

This is awkward, it turns out, because Kenyon also praised freedom of movement.

We’re yet to see how Reform responds to this, but if Kenyon remains the candidate, it seems the party is now officially open to Remainers.

Featured image via X/ Nigel Farage