Keith Prince, who was a Tory party member for almost 50 years, served as leader of Redbridge Council in east London from 2009 to 2014, and is a councillor at Havering Council, also in east London. He has been the assembly member for Havering and Redbridge since 2016. Reform UK already has one member of the assembly which means the party, led by Nigel Farage, can form an official group on the body for the first time.