Former Neighbours star Holly Valance backs Reform UK at next general election

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Former Neighbours star Holly Valance has mentioned she shall be voting for Reform UK at the next election – only one month after backing Jacob Rees Mogg to be next prime minister.

The Australian actress, 40, recognized for her position as Felicity “Flick” Scully, mentioned she voted Conservative in 2019 however will now change her allegiance to Richard Tice’s get together.

Speaking on the GB News Chopper’s Political Podcast, she mentioned: “Last time I voted [for the] Conservatives, next time I’ll be voting Reform.”

She additionally revealed she needs former Brexit Party chief Nigel Farage, who’s the honorary president of Reform UK, to steer the get together.

When requested about Conservative MP Lee Anderson defecting to the get together final week, she mentioned: “Yeah.. I support anybody that sticks to what they believe in and isn’t a turncoat, and doesn’t do a million flip-flops and U-turns.

“So I have respect for that, even for like nutters on the other side, if you stick to what you believe and you keep reiterating that over years and years, I can always respect that.

“I might not agree with you, but I get that more than the changing of the minds and the flipping around and never having any conviction. I think people are sick of that.”

Mr Anderson, a former Conservative deputy chairman and MP for Ashfield, had been sitting as an unbiased after being suspended for suggesting London mayor Sadiq Khan was being managed by Islamist extremists.

Just final month, Ms Valance attended the launch of Liz Truss’s Popular Conservatism motion in London. She additionally went to Boris and Carrie Johnson’s marriage ceremony within the Cotswolds in July 2022 alongside together with her property tycoon husband Nick Candy.

At the ‘PopCon’ occasion, Ms Valance praised Britain’s shortest-serving former prime minister and backed Mr Rees-Mogg because the next prime minister. She instructed the convention she was “a lefty” when she was youthful, however her beliefs have since modified.

“I would say that everyone starts off as a leftie and then wakes up at some point after you start either making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a home and then realise what crap ideas they all are. And then you go to the right,” she added.

Her feedback got here after her billionaire husband praised Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer and mentioned it was “time for a change”. Mr Candy, a Tory donor, praised Sir Keir’s enterprise ties and criticised Tory infighting.

Mr Candy instructed Bloomberg’s In the City podcast: “I think it’s probably time for a change. I think all this infighting in the Tories even now with talk of Kemi Badenoch replacing Rishi by mid-May with people that have nothing to do with…

When asked about reports that Mr Candy will vote Labour at the next general election, Ms Valance said: “It was just a miscommunication with the way he structured the sentence (on a podcast) in that he said: ‘Labour is going to get in and it’s time for a change.’

“It wasn’t: ‘Labour is getting in and I’m voting for them.’

She added that she would “assume” he would vote for the Conservative Party.