Reform UK

All six parties are asked the same questions in the same order, so their answers can be read against each other. Positions are the party’s own; anything in the grey line beneath is our note on where a policy is contested or short on detail.

1. 01

   Immigration & asylum

   Who gets to come here, who gets to stay, and what happens to people who arrive without permission.

   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 Indefinite Leave to Remain would be abolished and existing grants rescinded, replaced by a five-year renewable visa carrying higher salary thresholds, mandatory English fluency and stricter good-character requirements.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.

2. 02

   Tax & the economy

   Who pays what, and what the state can afford as a result.

   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.

3. 03

   NHS & social care

   How healthcare and care for older and disabled people are funded and delivered.

   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.

4. 04

   Housing

   Whether enough homes get built, who builds them, and who can afford one.

   Housing policy appears mainly through immigration: restricting welfare and social housing access for migrants.

   Little detail published on overall housing supply or building targets.

5. 05

   Crime & justice

   Policing, sentencing and prisons — how much punishment, and how much prevention.

   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.

6. 06

   Energy & net zero

   How fast Britain cuts carbon emissions, what it costs, and who bears the cost.

   Scrapping net zero targets outright and "rehabilitating" North Sea gas as a primary energy source, framed as the fastest way to cut household bills.

7. 07

   Education

   Schools, universities and skills — funding, standards and who pays for what.

   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.

8. 08

   Defence & foreign policy

   Military spending, NATO, the nuclear deterrent and Britain's alliances.

   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.

9. 09

   Europe & the constitution

   The relationship with the EU, membership of international courts, and how power is distributed within the UK.

   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.

10. 10

    Media & culture

    The BBC, broadcasting, and contested questions of national identity and religious practice.

    Abolition of the BBC licence fee outright, and scrapping Diversity, Equality and Inclusion requirements across the public sector.

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