21-05-2025
Reform UK club in Blackpool ‘hosted far-right events for decade'
The owners of a pub that has rebranded under the Reform UK banner have hosted far-right events at the venue since 2014, it has been claimed.
A senior Reform party official has hailed the rebranding, saying 'first we replaced the Tories last week at the local elections, now we are replacing their clubs too'.
But now campaigners have claimed that the owners, who 15 years ago bought what was then the Conservative Club, rented out space for far-right events.
They said the owners planned to host a 'white victims of multiculturalism' event in 2018, which promised political speeches by a neo-Nazi campaigner and a Holocaust denier, until it was cancelled amid a backlash.
The co-owner Nick Lowe denied it was a far-right venue, saying he