Bruges UK
Bruges UK | |
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| 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
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| House of Lords | 74 / 780
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| Councillors | 3,470 / 6,790
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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 political 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.