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Case update 4 February 2026
Landmark case against Nigel Farage’s Reform reaches the High Court
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When voters asked Reform about their data, the party ignored them – now they’ll have to explain in court why they don’t listen
Our trailblazing group case against Reform UK is at the High Court this morning, after we teamed up with 51 supporters to put Nigel Farage’s contempt for voters in the dock.
This case started in 2024, when thousands of people used our online tool to make official requests for political parties to reveal whether they were holding their personal data.
Most parties replied in a reasonable period – the law sets a limit of a month for a response. Reform didn’t only bust through that deadline, they completely ignored the requests until we started legal action.
We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High CourtChip in
Farage claims his party is “your voice in Westminster”, but when people actually get in touch, he simply ignores them – unless lawyers get involved.
Reform’s privacy policy baldly states an ambition “to create and maintain a profile for each registered voter in the UK”. But when Reform responded to our supporters they claimed to have no data on any of them.
We’ve joined forces with 51 supporters to challenge Reform in the High Court, where we’ll be arguing that Reform’s position that it has no data on these people is untenable and reveals a troubling pattern of evasion that raises questions for voters across the UK.
Reform has also used a powerful software tool called NationBuilder. That tool can be used to do something called micro-targeting, by scraping social media and commercial databases and building deep profiles of voters.
When we asked Reform if they used NationBuilder, Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, denied it. That denial was submitted to the court in a legal document which Tice signed with a ‘statement of truth’, a form of words which confirms that you honestly believe what you have said. But we can now reveal that in July 2025, Tice and Reform had to make an embarrassing admission – Tice was wrong and Reform does use NationBuilder.
And this isn’t just a technical issue. The whole point of software like NationBuilder is that it allows organisations to send out different messages to different audiences. A strategy that produces big profits for big business and puts democracy at risk – it’s impossible to build political consensus or public support by saying one thing to one set of people and something entirely different to others.
No-one is above the law. And politicians who want to make the law should be held to account if they break it.
With Farage riding high in the polls, the prospect of a far-right government modelled on Donald Trump’s authoritarian America is closer than ever.
This groundbreaking legal challenge is the first time he’s had to defend his disdain for the people of this country in open court. And we’re ready for a fight.