We’ve filed a landmark case against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

We’ve done it. Alongside 51 Good Law Project supporters, today we filed a trailblazing new group action against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at the High Court.

This case is obviously about Reform’s breach of people’s data rights. When people got in touch with the party to ask what data it held, at first it ignored them. It only got back to them – with what looked like a hurriedly sent out batch email –  after receiving a legal letter from Good Law Project.

But scratch below the surface and this is a case about far deeper issues than data rights and wrongs. It’s a case about how Farage and his party are not above the law. It’s a case about how political parties gather data to target you with divisive messages based on what they think you want to hear. And it’s a case about your right to tell any political party that if they hold any data on you they must delete it now – no ifs, no buts.

We’re pioneering the use of a mechanism enshrined in GDPR that allows a non-profit like Good Law Project to represent people in court when their data rights have been violated.

It’s already poetic – the first group claim of this kind brings people together against a far-right party that claims to be the voice of the people. All we need now is the High Court to give Reform the poetic justice they deserve.