Tice becomes MP for Boston and Skegness

Property investor and Reform UK chairman Richard Tice has overturned a Conservative majority to become MP for Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire. Tice secured 15,520 votes – 2,010 more than Tory candidate Matt Warman. It is the first time the constituency, created in 1997, has had an MP who is not a Conservative. Tice said: “What we have achieved from just three years ago as Reform UK: no one had heard of us, we were zero per cent in the polls, we had no money in the bank account, and I was sneered at and mocked by so many.” He called the seat wins by Reform “truly remarkable” saying a “people’s revolt is under way”. Tice was formerly chief executive of CLS and runs real estate investment firm Quidnet. His party’s manifesto promised planning reforms, the abolition of business rates for high street-based SMEs and inheritance tax for estates under £2m, the slashing of red tape and incentivising modular construction. Photo by Finbarr Webster/Shutterstock