Meet Kai Cunningham. He’s a law student whose LinkedIn profile says he wants to develop his public speaking skills. So he practises at every opportunity.
The first photo shows him addressing a Reform UK party East London branch meeting in Rainham, Kent.
The second shows him, as a leader of the neo-Nazi White Vanguard, delivering a virulently antisemitic speech at a Britain First march in Birmingham in May. This is the speech:
The two events were only a month apart. All good practise for our aspiring fascist orator.
Cunningham, though young in years – he is only 21 – has quite a pedigree in extremist politics. He was a member of the Youth Alliance (seen here with National Rebirth Party boss Alec Yerbury in 2024) and is now the main man in White Vanguard, running their X feed.
And yet, in Essex, Cunningham has been recognised as a leading activist for Reform UK.
Only three months ago, he was interviewed at length for a feature in the UnHerd news website, as a spokesman for young supporters of Reform in Essex. In a tweet promoting the article, its author described him as a “Reform candidate”.
‘Reform is our only chance’
The author of the piece, which was titled ‘Reform is coming for Dagenham’, attended the very Rainham meeting which Cunningham addressed. He describes how:
“The tension’s been brewing all night: between a party in search of professionalisation and a lagered-up, pissed-off crowd.
“The bickering is only broken by a young man, taking to the stage and seizing the mic.
“‘There’s no point squabbling,’ says Kai Cunningham. ‘Reform is our only chance. The country is broken. Barking and Dagenham is broken, and all the lefties need to hear us say it’s broken, and realise we’re still here advocating for our country.’
“The loudest cheer of the night bellowed out.
“Cunningham is representative of the new Reform. Twenty-one years old, confident, brisk, cheeky: fluent in both the fall of modern Britain and hope of its renewal”.
Cunningham has now been suspended by Reform.
Cunningham made no serious attempt to conceal his involvement with both White Vanguard and Reform.
At the Britain First rally, although he wore sunglasses when he gave his speech, he was also photographed without them.
And in April, after the East London Reform meeting, he posted on LinkedIn that he had addressed the meeting, and added photos of himself with other attendees. A few days ago that post was taken down.
Happily, we had already captured it…
Ironically, his involvement with Reform UK surfaces when Nigel Farage’s party has announced that it will, in future, be loosening the vetting to which candidates are subject.
Cunningham also has his own X account, with the handle @indigenousbritt, where he has described himself as ‘a law student with a promising career.
In fact, he is just coming to the end of his first year studying law. Before that he entered basic training in the army, but had to withdraw ‘for personal reasons’ after only a few weeks.
This, however, led him to claim online that he had ‘military experience’, which kicked off a war of words with National Rebirth Party chief Alek Yerbury, who branded him a ‘Walter Mitty’.
