One YouGov poll has putReform UK ahead of the Tories. But others still have the Conservatives slightly ahead. To counter the threat to their right, the incumbent party of government has targeted their core vote. TheConservative manifestoincludes pledges to reintroduce national service and bring in...
Nigel Farage, who unveiled his party's self-described election "contract" earlier today, says Reform won't win this election but launched his party's pitch with a blizzard of numbers illustrating what it would do if it was in power. Ed Conway assesses if the sums add up. The Reform man...
Nigel Farage (b. 1964) is a British politician who in 2019 founded the populist Brexit Party, which became Reform UK in 2021. He led the populist libertarian United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in 2006–09 and 2010–16 and was a European MP 1999–20
Monday 17 June 2024 16:07, UK General Election 2024 Reform UK ShareThis is a modal window. Video UnavailableSky's Ed Conway analyses whether Reform's manifesto spending plans add up after they set out the party's pledges in South Wales ahead of the general election on 4 July....
On 17th June, Nigel Farage launched Reform UK’s contract with the British people in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Farage refrained from calling the document a manifesto as these “keep making the same promises and no one believes a word of what they say”. ...
Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party overtook Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives in an opinion poll for the first time on Thursday (13 June) ahead of Britain's election on 4 July. The poll by YouGov for the Times newspaper put Reform UK on 19%, up from 17...
Nevertheless, political parties in the UK, unlike parties in so much of continental Europe, have to be much more than a manifesto of measures that appeal to a particular segment of the electorate. Most European jurisdictions use electoral systems that are largely designed to ensure that the outco...
Lords reform is also pledged by the Green Party, which proposes replacement with an elected second chamber, and the Liberal Democrats (who propose to reform the chamber to have a ‘proper democratic mandate’ but offer no more detail). Reform UK proposes to replace the House of Lords with a...
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Gove on Wednesday appeared to edge away from the Conservative party’s 2019 election manifesto pledge of building 300,000 homes each year in England by the middle of this decade. “I don’t think we are going to hit that target this year,” he told the BBC. “We are going to do ever...