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Round 9: Tossup 8

This party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, resigned and then un-resigned amidst debates over a Burqa ban. In 2025, a member of this party named Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making pro-Russia statements in exchange for bribes. This party’s 2024 manifesto proposed leaving the ECHR to speed up deportations. Hours before he defected to this party, Robert Jenrick was sacked by Kemi (*) Badenoch after his resignation speech was found on a photocopier. This successor of the Brexit Party (10[1])currently leads (10[1])polling (10[1])over Keir Starmer’s incumbent Labour Party. For 10 points, Nigel Farage (-5[1])leads what up and coming right wing (-5[1])British Political Party? ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Reform UK [prompt on Brexit Party until mention by asking “what is it called now?”]
<Current Events, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 09
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Ishaan Dinesh (BASIS Silicon Valley)CaliforniaGeorgia B7510
Ritam Setu (St. Mark's)Texas BGeorgia A7710
Jai Tripathi (Horace Mann)New YorkTexas A7810
Luke Coughlin (Autrey Mill)Georgia CKentucky89-5
Keaton Finan (Finan Homeschool)WashingtonNorth Carolina96-5
Hanna WuKentuckyGeorgia C1000
Lucas ZhangNorth CarolinaWashington1000

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓650%33%67%58.33
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓3100%0%0%83.67
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓475%25%25%57.67
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓5100%20%0%73.20
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓3100%100%0%5.33
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓4100%100%0%8.00
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓2100%0%50%77.00
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓560%0%40%76.67
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓8100%63%25%45.38