Exclusive: Reform UK 2024 General Election Candidate and Former Branch Chairman Photographed Outside Fascist Conference

We can reveal that Patrick Seargeant, while still in position as chairman of Reform UK’s Middlesbrough and Thornaby East branch, was present in Bourne, Lincolnshire as the fascist Homeland Party held a conference in April, 2025. 

Red Flare photographed Sergeant, who stood as a Reform UK candidate in the 2024 General Election, outside Homeland’s “Remigration” conference venue with members of the fascist party.

We discovered and publicised the location of the secret venue, the council-owned Bourne Corn Exchange in Bourne, Lincolnshire, on the morning of Homeland’s event - and covertly photographed attendees. 

Our photographs show Seargeant outside the venue with a man wearing a Homeland Party badge. We also photographed him leaving the venue car park with other attendees visible in the background.

“Remigration,” the subject of Homeland’s April conference, is a euphemism for the forced deportation of non-white people. Homeland, who split from neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative and are now one of the UK's biggest fascist groups, have been the key proponents of the idea in Britain, facilitating its entry into mainstream political discourse. Speakers at the conference included Lena Kotré of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, who was revealed by German investigative outlet Correctiv to have attended another neo-Nazi conference in Switzerland in December 2024. Keynote speaker Renaud Camus, who coined the “Great Replacement” slogan, delivered his speech by video link after being barred from entering the UK by the Home Office, which stated that his presence in the UK would not be “conducive to the public good.”

In October this year, five months after attending Homeland's conference, a resignation letter allegedly sent from Seargeant to Nigel Farage was shared online by Thornbury News. In the letter Seargeant stated that he was dissatisfied with Reform UK’s party governance and intended to join Advance UK, the party launched this year by former Reform UK Co-Deputy Leader and Tommy Robinson ally, Ben Habib. 

Despite Seargeant’s reservations, Reform UK’s vetting procedures leave a lot to be desired. In July we revealed that Reform UK had platformed a neo-Nazi activist from the White Vanguard group at a branch meeting in Rainham, Essex. This month, Reform UK councillor Claire Mackie-Brown shared a photo of herself posing at a far-right rally with a group that included Homeland Party member Josh Fernie. Lancashire county councillor Tom Pickup was suspended from Reform UK in November after screenshots were shared of his participation in a WhatsApp group chat in which members called for a “mass Islam genocide.” Seargeant's recent move to Advance UK adds to a growing list of defections, suspensions, and expulsions as the Reform UK leadership struggle to keep their activists in check.