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”. Party leader Nigel Farage wants ...
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....
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...
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 (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
The opposition Labour Party topped the poll with 37%. The survey of 2,211 people was carried out on 12-13 June, after Sunak pledged to cut 17 billion pounds (€20.24 billion) of taxes for working people in his party's election manifesto. Reform's poll rating...
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...
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...
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On other matters, such as strengthening the powers of individual constitutional watchdogs— by, for instance, putting them on a statutory basis — silence. Similarly, ministers have said work is under way on the Ethics and Integrity Commission promised in Labour’s manifesto, but there does not...