Bruges UK

Bruges UK
Abbreviation	BUK
Leader	Michael Gove
Deputy Leader	Boris Johnson
President	Chloe Cook
Chief Executive	Ariya Hawkins
Lords Leader	The Lord Fraser
Founded	15 June 2022
Split from	Conservative Party Labour Party
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Women's wing	BUK Women
Membership (2022)	203,517
Ideology	Conservatism Euroscepticism British nationalism Right-wing populism
Political position	Right-wing
Colors	Dark blue Black
Slogan	"Progress In Tradition"
House of Commons	76 / 682
House of Lords	74 / 780
Councillors	3,470 / 6,790

Bruges UK is a right-wing political party in the United Kingdom. Formed in June 2022, the party was founded by former Conservative MPs Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, in response to an unsuccessful attempt by the two to have themselves readmitted into the Conservative Party, having previously been expelled from the party by David Cameron in the wake of the 2016 United Kingdom political crisis. As a right-wing political party, Bruges UK has often been compared to the likes of the UK Independence Party and its successor, Reform UK, with whom the party largely shares similar right-wing policies while also espousing strong Euroscepticism and are in favour of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

In addition to its co-founders, the party also consists of approximately sixty-four MPs from the Conservative Party and ten from the Labour Party respectively. In total, the party currently has seventy-six MPs in the House of Commons, and seventy-four MPs in the House of Lords, making it the largest third party in the United Kingdom.

The party's name, Bruges, is believed to have been deliberately chosen, most likely as a reference to the so-called Bruges speech given by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1988, in which she publicly opposed any sort of federalisation concerning the European Economic Community, which would later become the modern-day European Union.