Laurence Fox is a former actor and musician who, since 2020, has carved out a career as a radical right provocateur and aspiring politician. 

His views came to attention following an appearance on BBC’s Question Time in 2020, when he dismissed the idea that racism played a part in media hostility towards Meghan Markle. He soon capitalised on the controversy that followed, launching a career as a commentator and establishing the Reclaim Party that year, which he dubbed as a “UKIP for the culture wars”. 

Fox’s political ambitions have been dogged by administrative issues and derisory election results. In 2021, he received just 1.9% of the vote in the London mayoral election, despite the endorsement of Reform UK and a significant media profile, and in 2023 he pulled in just 2.3% in the Uxbridge by-election. Fox’s attempt to run for London mayor in 2024 ended when his nomination paperwork, entered moments before the deadline, was deemed invalid due to errors. He was ultimately able to contest the London Assembly election but lost his deposit after winning just 0.5% of the vote. The spring election was one of Fox’s many embarrassments; in April 2024, he was ordered to pay £180,000 to two people he had libelled by referring to them as paedophiles on X. The sum was subsequently reduced to £90,000 in October 2025.

In March 2025, Fox was charged with a sexual offence, after he allegedly shared an intimate image of TV star Narinder Kaur on social media without her consent – something he denies. 

He also has a media career as a commentator, but was sacked from his GB News job in late 2023 after a misogynistic rant against the journalist Ava Santina. Since then, he has taken to posting increasingly inflammatory messages on social media. After the Southport stabbings, he said: “We need to permanently remove Islam from Great Britain.” He furthermore declared “war” against Keir Starmer and “immigrant barbarians” before leaving the country to go on holiday in Cork, Ireland. In December 2025, he said he would “rather fight for Russia” than Britain at the moment. 

There are doubts about the viability of Reclaim going forward. The party is exclusively bankrolled by pro-Brexit businessman Jeremy Hosking, who has donated more than £4 million to date. In January 2024, Fox stated that the then leaders of Reform UK and the SDP had approached Hosking to solicit his support and abandonment of Reclaim. Nonetheless, in the first nine months of 2025, Hosking donated £140,000 to the party. 

Reclaim Party Ltd, a private company controlled by Fox, was incorporated in November 2020 and remains active. However, in breach of company law, it has not filed accounts since July 2022. The company applied to be struck off on 9 May 2025, but this was discontinued on 15 May 2025, after Companies House received an objection. The company applied again to be struck off on 20 May 2025.

On 13 September 2025, Fox marched and spoke at the “Unite the Kingdom” rally, organised by anti-Muslim extremist and serial criminal Stephen Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson), where he ranted about “demographic suicide”.