"London does not belong to Labour. It does not belong to the Tories. It belongs to the people."

Laila Cunningham is a former Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor turned Reform UK figurehead, whose defection from the Conservative Party in June 2025 made her the first Reform sitting councillor in a London borough. A fierce critic of establishment failures on crime, immigration, and free speech, she has rapidly become one of the most prominent new voices on the British right.

In January 2026 Nigel Farage announced her as Reform UK's candidate for the London Mayoralty in 2028 and head of London campaigning.

“Laila is an enormously talented, successful woman" — Nigel Farage