Image:Reform UK Party launches its election manifesto, in Merthyr Tydfil The Reform manifesto, or "contract" as they're calling it, is a strange document. Most manifestos are produced to give the voter a sniff of what life might look like if the party in question gets into power. Electi...
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...
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 ...
Reform UK claim they would save around £150bn annually to pay for its policies.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 ...
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
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...
"A Manifesto for US Monetary Reform" hardly sounds like a winning banner in an election campaign. And that is a big problem. The ideal of a free society — where capitalism, a competitive market economy and political liberalism in combination build prosperity for all — is continually at ...
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...
Before the election, Labour promised to make broad changes to the standards regime. Yet two months after the election, progress on many aspects of their plans has been slow, and the new government has already been accused of ‘cronyism’ and other ethica