Reform party names Jenrick as finance chief

Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party named Robert Jenrick as its finance policy chief on Tuesday, as leader Nigel Farage made the first announcement of who would be in his ministerial team if his populist party wins the next national election.

Reform leads the governing Labour Party in opinion polls as Prime Minister Keir Starmer struggles to deliver growth and jobs while making a series of embarrassing U-turns on policy.

Farage named former Conservative Party leadership candidate Jenrick as “shadow chancellor”...