Side by side
The Green Party of England and Wales and Reform UK across all ten areas, in their own stated terms. Open in full for the detail beneath any line.
Immigration & asylum
Green
Expand safe routes; end hotel accommodation; oppose deterrence
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Opposes deterrence-based policy outright, favouring expanded safe and legal routes and an end to hotel-based asylum accommodation.
Reform
Freeze non-essential immigration; abolish ILR; Deportation Command
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An immediate freeze on non-essential immigration and a new Deportation Command. Indefinite Leave to Remain would be abolished and existing grants rescinded, replaced by a five-year renewable visa carrying higher salary thresholds, mandatory English fluency and stricter good-character requirements.
Rupert Lowe left the party in part over his claim that Reform was "watering down" deportation policy — placing Reform to the left of Restore Britain on its own signature issue.
Check itPolicies — Reform UKTax & the economy
Green
Wealth tax on assets over £10m; £15 minimum wage
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A wealth tax of 1% a year on individual assets above £10m and 2% above £1bn, which the party says would raise £15bn a year. Alongside it, a £15 minimum wage and a four-day working week.
Economists dispute wealth-tax yields of this size, pointing to valuation difficulty and behavioural response; the party treats the figure as its own costing.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryReform
Around £70bn a year of tax cuts
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Around £70bn a year of tax cuts, with family-focused measures including a 25% marriage allowance and child benefit front-loaded into the early years.
Independent economists have repeatedly questioned whether cuts on this scale can be funded without deep spending reductions the party has not specified.
Check itReform UK manifesto: policy breakdown — London DailyNHS & social care
Green
More health spending; opposes private provision in the NHS
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Increased health spending forms part of the capital programme, with the party opposing private provision within the NHS.
Less detailed than its economic and environmental platform.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryReform
Re-examine the funding model; tax breaks for NHS staff
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Re-examining the NHS funding model rather than the free-at-the-point-of-use principle. Specific pledges include temporarily zero-rating basic-rate income tax for NHS staff, tax relief on private health insurance, and independent reviews to train more staff and expand community services.
Check itPolicies — Reform UKHousing
Green
Social housing funded from the capital programme
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Social housing is funded from the same £90bn capital programme, alongside health and education — the party's answer to supply being public building rather than planning liberalisation.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryReform
Restrict social housing and welfare access for migrants
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Housing policy appears mainly through immigration: restricting welfare and social housing access for migrants.
Little detail published on overall housing supply or building targets.
Check itPolicies — Reform UKCrime & justice
Green
Presumption against short sentences; divert rather than jail
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A presumption against custodial sentences under two years, with investment redirected to courts, diversion schemes and violence-reduction units rather than prison places. The party would restore youth services and community policing, repeal the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act and the Public Order Act, abolish the Prevent programme, and decriminalise sex work.
Reform
40,000 more police; mandatory minimums; more prison places
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40,000 more police officers, expanded stop and search, mandatory minimum sentences for serious and repeat offenders, and more prison capacity so overcrowding no longer forces early release.
Check itReform UK manifesto: policy breakdown — London DailyEnergy & net zero
Green
£90bn a year capital spending; water, rail and energy in public hands
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Capital spending raised by £90bn a year by 2030, of which more than £70bn goes to the green transition. Water, rail and energy companies would be taken into public ownership.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans? — Economics ObservatoryReform
Scrap net zero targets; return to North Sea gas
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Scrapping net zero targets outright and "rehabilitating" North Sea gas as a primary energy source, framed as the fastest way to cut household bills.
Check itPolicies — Reform UKEducation
Green
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Reform
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Defence & foreign policy
Green
Cancel Trident and begin disarming, while staying in NATO
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Immediately begin dismantling Britain's nuclear weapons, cancelling Trident and banning nuclear-armed ships from UK waters, while continuing to recognise NATO's role in European security.
The combination of remaining in NATO while unilaterally disarming is the most contested element of the platform, since the alliance's strategic concept is explicitly nuclear.
Check itThe Green Party's defence plan — British BriefReform
Little published beyond withdrawing from institutions
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Reform has published comparatively little defence policy. What exists is framed around withdrawal from international institutions and conventions rather than force structure or spending commitments.
Analysts characterise this as a foreign policy of withdrawal; the party has not published a defence spending target.
Check itReform UK: a foreign policy of withdrawal — Next Century FoundationEurope & the constitution
Green
Rejoin the European Union
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Rejoining the European Union is party policy.
Check itPolanski outlines Green economic policy — AOL / PAReform
Leave the ECHR immediately
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A Reform government would leave the European Convention on Human Rights immediately, which the party presents as the mechanism that would let it deport people without legal challenge. Farage has framed withdrawal as the natural sequel to Brexit.
Legal scholars dispute the premise: the Convention does not dictate a state's immigration policy, and states set their own. The UK would also become the only European country outside it besides Russia and Belarus.
Check itPolicies — Reform UKMedia & culture
Green
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said — we would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
Reform
Abolish the BBC licence fee; scrap DEI rules
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Abolition of the BBC licence fee outright, and scrapping Diversity, Equality and Inclusion requirements across the public sector.
Check itThe future of the BBC licence fee — House of Commons Library
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