Which Reform UK MPs supported sanctions on Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine?
Executive summary
A review of the supplied reporting finds no direct evidence in those sources that any sitting Reform UK MP publicly backed the sanctions packages imposed on Russia after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine; the sources catalogue UK sanctions policy, lists of sanctioned Russian and British politicians and party-level commentary, but do not record Reform UK MPs voting for or explicitly endorsing those UK measures [1] [2] [3] [4]. That absence of documentary support in the provided material is important: it does not prove Reform UK MPs opposed sanctions, only that the supplied briefings and articles do not identify any Reform UK MP as a supporter.
1. Mapping the evidence: what the Commons Library and mainstream reporting actually record
The House of Commons Library research briefings supplied give comprehensive timelines of UK sanctions against Russia since February 2022 and catalogue successive government packages and legislative instruments implementing those measures, but they do not attribute individual MP-level votes or public interventions by Reform UK MPs in favour of the sanctions [1] [5] [6]. Major media pieces in the dataset focus on government announcements of sanctions and on lists of Russians sanctioned by the UK (and reciprocally of British MPs sanctioned by Russia), but those write-ups likewise do not single out Reform UK parliamentarians as signatories, proponents or supporters of the UK sanctions regime [7] [2] [3] [8].
2. Who got named — and who did not — in the sanctions and retaliation lists
Russia’s retaliatory sanctions released in spring 2022 named 287 British MPs that Moscow accused of “taking the most active part” in UK measures; those lists, as reported, were dominated by Conservative and Labour names and do not, in the supplied articles, include Reform UK MPs as a discrete bloc on Moscow’s list [2] [3] [8]. The Commons Library briefings and government press releases catalogue the targets and legal bases of the UK’s packages — banks, oligarchs, lines of trade and named individuals — but they do not document Reform UK MPs’ support for those packages [1] [9] [6].
3. Party-level posture versus MP-level record: the limits of the material
Reform UK’s broader public positioning on Ukraine and Russia is referenced in the supplied background: elements of party discourse have been critical of Western policy and have featured commentary (notably from Nigel Farage) suggesting Western actions contributed to the crisis, which signals an at-least-sceptical posture toward robust punitive responses in some party circles [4]. Polling cited here shows Reform UK voters were more likely than average to feel the UK had given “too much” support to Ukraine, indicating a constituency pressure that could influence MPs’ public positions — but polling of voters is not the same as evidence of MPs having supported sanctions [10].
4. What can — and cannot — be concluded from the supplied sources
Using only the material provided, the responsible conclusion is that the sources do not identify any named Reform UK MP as having supported the UK sanctions after the 2022 invasion; the material documents sanctions law, government packages, lists of sanctioned individuals and some party-level commentary, but it lacks MP-level division records, Hansard quotations or press statements from Reform UK MPs expressly backing the measures [1] [5] [4] [2]. This is an evidence gap rather than affirmative proof of opposition: a definitive answer would require consulting division lists, Hansard debates and contemporaneous press statements by individual Reform UK MPs, sources not included in the supplied dataset.
5. Where to go next for definitive verification
To resolve the remaining uncertainty, the public record to check would be official parliamentary division lists and Hansard transcripts for votes on sanctions-related statutory instruments and motions, along with press releases and social-media archives for each Reform UK MP; those primary parliamentary records are not present among the supplied sources and therefore could not be relied upon here (no source provided). The Commons Library briefings and government sanctions announcements in this set, however, remain authoritative guides to what the UK sanctioned and when, even if they do not resolve the MP-level question [1] [9].