Pop star & ex-Neighbours actress Holly Valance looks unrecognisable as she attends Reform party conference in cowboy hat

HOLLY Valance looked unrecognisable arsenic she attended the Reform enactment league successful a cowboy chapeau and heart-shaped sunglasses.

The ex-Neighbours histrion went to the party's nationalist league lawsuit successful Birmingham connected Friday with billionaire hubby Nick Candy.

The star, who embarked connected a popular vocation aft her breakout relation connected the fashionable Australian soap, was seen holding a pint of lager and wearing a sparkly chapeau with the aforesaid bluish tinge arsenic Reform's logo.

At the event, Reform UK person Nigel Farage told reporters helium thinks the state is successful "societal decline".

Speaking aft his keynote code astatine the league connected Friday, the enactment person was asked whether helium thinks the state volition spot much "civil unrest".

Mr Farage said: "It's been happening and it's getting worse."

He added: "You can't adjacent locomotion done the West End of London wearing a ticker aft 9 o'clock astatine nighttime and women can't deterioration jewellery.

"So, you know, are we successful societal decline? Yeah, I deliberation we are."

Mr Farage besides promised that Reform UK volition "be vetting candidates rigorously astatine each levels" successful future.

Addressing the crowds successful Birmingham, Mr Farage said the enactment has not got "time" oregon "room" for "a fewer extremists to wreck the enactment of a enactment that present has 80,000 members".

He described the weekend's league arsenic the constituent his enactment "comes of age" aft it secured 5 MPs astatine the wide predetermination successful July.

Reflecting connected the hours instantly aft the election, Mr Farage said that helium said "yes of course, I would correspond the constituency" but helium had a "job to professionalise and democratise Reform UK".

"That was a solemn committedness and pledge that I made to you, the members."

Mr Farage told the crowds that helium thinks his "promise to professionalise the enactment is present connected track", and added: "I besides committedness that successful aboriginal we volition beryllium vetting candidates rigorously astatine each levels, I committedness you that.

"We haven't got time, we haven't got country for a fewer extremists to wreck the enactment of a enactment that present has 80,000 members and rising by hundreds each azygous day."

The 5 Reform UK MPs elected astatine the wide predetermination each spoke successful the auditorium connected Friday, the archetypal time of the play league astatine which Mr Farage said his enactment "comes of age".

"The babe that Reform UK was has been increasing up," helium said successful his speech.

"We had the teenage tantrums which were those that caused america harm successful the wide election. But we're present astatine a antithetic point. The enactment is an adult, and this weekend, this play is erstwhile Reform UK comes of age."

The Liberal Democrats secured 72 seats astatine the wide predetermination connected a smaller fashionable ballot stock than Reform UK, and Mr Farage told delegates that his enactment has to "model ourselves connected the Liberal Democrats" successful future.

"That doesn't mean that you'll spot maine cascading down waterfalls and I won't behave successful a mode that I deliberation is peculiarly anserine adjacent if others deliberation I do," helium said.

"But the Liberal Democrats physique branches, the Liberal Democrats triumph seats astatine district, region and unitary level.

"The Liberal Democrats physique connected that strength, the Liberal Democrats enactment lit and leaflets done doors repeatedly successful their people areas."

Speaking earlier Mr Farage, Ashfield MP Lee Anderson claimed that his enactment volition triumph "hundreds of seats" astatine assembly elections successful 2025.

"Next year, we're going to triumph hundreds of seats, assembly seats, crossed the state - that's a fact," helium said.

Earlier connected Friday, the party's lawman person Richard Tice said that Mr Farage's narration with erstwhile US president Donald Trump is "to the payment of this country".

Mr Farage has visited the US 3 times since being elected arsenic the MP for Clacton, including attending the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee 2 weeks aft the election.

Speaking up of the league starting, Mr Tice said that "as a person of a enactment that is present becoming mainstream, planetary affairs, our narration with our astir important, strategical planetary spouse - the US - is precise important and the satellite volition beryllium a safer spot if Donald Trump wins the statesmanlike election".

"Nigel's beardown narration with Donald Trump is really to the payment of this state and it's rather close that helium cements and strengthens that," Mr Tice added.