Revealed: Top Reform activist belonged to far-right pro-remigration group

A senior activist for Reform UK was involved in a far-right group that advocates for a form of ethnic cleansing, HOPE not hate can reveal.

George Jones was once a prominent figure in the Traditional Britain Group (TBG), an organisation that organises conferences and events about so-called “remigration”, or the removal of millions of non-white people from the UK. TBG has hosted talks by race scientists such as Edward Dutton and radical right politicians like the AfD’s Stefan Korte, who spoke about remigration being “an absolute necessity”.

In the 2010s, Jones sat on TBG’s committee and was photographed addressing the group’s annual black-tie dinner.

TBG has said that Baroness Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered in a racist attack, should be “requested to return to their natural homelands” along with “millions of others”. 

Jones, pictured above addressing an undated TBG event, was reported to be in charge of the Patrons’ Club, a group for Reform donors who give more than £1,000. Last month, Jones hosted a champagne and canapés event at a Belgravia club.

In 2013, he was named by the Independent as a committee member of TBG. In the article, which followed Jacob Rees-Mogg’s attendance of a TBG event (for which he later apologised), Jones was quoted as saying he declined to talk about TBG “without my lawyer present”. The group’s website at the time said “We believe that the heterosexual family is the primary social unit” and called for “the repeal of all race-relations legislation”.

During this period, Jones was a fixture at TBG events. At one dinner, he was seen sitting among other members of the committee and the group’s founder, Gregory Lauder-Frost, who in 2019 was fined for racist abuse after he told a student of Indian heritage: “You have no right to be in our country or arguing with a superior race.”

This week, Jones was revealed to have campaigned with the British National Party (BNP) in its failed 2010 Barking and Dagenham campaign. A report in the Financial Times identified him applauding a speech by Nick Griffin, then the BNP’s leader.

Jones’s lawyers, quoted in the FT, said it would be “misleading and unfair” to describe him as a supporter of the BNP. “With the benefit of maturity and hindsight, our client acknowledges that during his teenage years, he explored a range of ideas as part of his intellectual development,” Jones’s lawyers told the newspaper.

However, after his attendance at that BNP event, Jones did go on to become a leading figure in TBG. In now-deleted photographs posted on the group’s Facebook page, he was seen wearing a Union Jack bow-tie at a TBG dinner. He appears to be in the background of one TBG event also attended by the pagan influencer Thomas Rowsell (AKA Survive The Jive) and Jeremy Bedford-Turner, who was jailed for racial hatred in 2015 after calling for “soldiers” to liberate England from “Jewish control”.

This is not the first time that Jones has caused a scandal for the party. In the 2024 general election, he was filmed by Channel 4 calling the Pride flag “degenerate” and referring to gay people as paedophiles. At the time, Nigel Farage said he was “dismayed” and said he would no longer be allowed in his campaign. The ban did not appear to last, as Jones attended Farage’s election night party in Clacton. 

“Our client has no further comments to make on the matters you have raised,” Jones’s lawyer said.

Reform did not reply to requests for comment. A representative told the FT this week that Jones was no longer in his voluntary role at the Patrons’ Club and was not a party employee.