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Reform UK and Restore Britain across all ten areas, in their own stated terms. Open in full for the detail beneath any line.
Immigration & asylum
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 Indefinite Leave to Remain would be abolished and existing grants rescinded, replaced by a five-year renewable visa carrying higher salary thresholds, mandatory English fluency and stricter good-character requirements.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 UKRestore
Abolish asylum; deport everyone here illegally within three years
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The furthest-reaching platform of the six: abolition of the asylum system and what the party calls the largest deportation programme in Britain's history, set out in a 113-page paper, Mass Deportations: Legitimacy, Legality and Logistics, which proposes removing everyone in the UK illegally within three years. The overall target is net-negative immigration.
Legal scholars and migration researchers question whether removals on this scale are achievable within any Western legal framework, and the paper's own title concedes legitimacy and legality are open questions.
Check itRestore Britain and its proposed policies — National MediaTax & the economy
Reform
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 DailyRestore
Libertarian outlook: smaller state, lower taxes
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The party describes its economic outlook as libertarian, favouring a smaller state and lower taxes.
No costed fiscal programme published.
Check itRestore Britain and its proposed policies — National MediaNHS & social care
Reform
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 UKRestore
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.
Housing
Reform
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 UKRestore
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.
Crime & justice
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 DailyRestore
A referendum on restoring the death penalty
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A referendum on restoring the death penalty. Possession of pepper spray would be legalised and "reasonable force" in home defence expanded.
Capital punishment is prohibited by Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the UK has ratified; restoring it would require withdrawal.
Check itRestore Britain and its proposed policies — National MediaEnergy & net zero
Reform
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 UKRestore
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.
Education
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.
Restore
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
Reform
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 FoundationRestore
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.
Europe & the constitution
Reform
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 UKRestore
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.
Media & culture
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 LibraryRestore
Defund the BBC; ban the burqa; end halal and kosher slaughter
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Withdrawal of BBC funding. Halal and kosher slaughter would be abolished, and the burqa and niqab banned in public.
The religious-slaughter and clothing measures would affect Jewish and Muslim practice; the party frames them as animal-welfare and integration measures.
Check itRestore Britain — Wikipedia
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