2<\/p>\n Derek Chisora and Nigel Farage are close pals – and now the British heavyweight is being urged by pals to run for Reform 2<\/p>\n Derek Chisora, 41, is close pals with Farage and campaigned for Brexit<\/p>\n The boxing star, 41, is close pals with Nigel Farage<\/a> and campaigned for Brexit.<\/p>\n Friends reckon he could floor Labour in the capital.<\/p>\n If he entered the fray for City Hall, he would be the second boxer to stand for Reform.<\/p>\n Olympic medalist Luke Campbell<\/a> was elected Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire earlier this year.<\/p>\n A source close to Chisora <\/a>told The Sun on Sunday: \u201cDerek has been a loyal supporter of Nigel for years and they are known to attend social events together. Nigel is always ringside at his fights.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFriends of Derek are urging him to \u201cdo a Luke\u201d <\/a>and take on Labour at the next London election.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe has real personality and stands a good chance of winning if the Reform surge continues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Chisora<\/a> is just one bout short of his 50th fight – and then is expected to hang up his boxing gloves.<\/p>\n He has previously spoken of his friendship with Nigel Farage<\/a>, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about politics, but I think we have to put British people first. <\/p>\n “I became friends with Nigel and Nick Candy and campaigned for Brexit.\u201d<\/p>\n Inside UK\u2019s 1st Reform pub with \u00a32 pints, boozers drinking \u2018Remainer tears\u2019 & even Corbyn\u2019s allowed in, on one condition<\/p>\n But Chisora<\/a> faces a battle to be picked by Reform to be their candidate for London Mayor.<\/p>\n Fellow Reform backer Celebrity SAS hardman Ant Middleton has said he wants the job.<\/p>\n Sadiq Khan is expected to step down as Labour London Mayor before the next election in 2028.<\/p>\n Possible contenders to replace him as Labour candidate include actor Idris Elba<\/a>, Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden<\/a> and Labour MP Dawn Butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEREK Chisora is eyeing up his toughest fight yet – to become a Reform UK mayor. The British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,802,527,5062,393,560,528,257,2465,384,386,935,520,79,118,1890,16,44218,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-149025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-conservative-party","11":"tag-derek-chisora","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-exclusives","14":"tag-labour-party","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-manchester","17":"tag-nigel-farage","18":"tag-reform-uk","19":"tag-section-newspolitics","20":"tag-sir-keir-starmer","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","23":"tag-the-sun-on-sunday","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-uk-general-election","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114607231157980161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Derek](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/derek-chisora-nigel-farage-kate-999438046.jpg\")
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