STOP REFORM UK

Reform UK are not working in the interests of the British public

Reform UK policies and voting record show they do not represent the interests of the British public.


Take away our worker rights

Farage and Reform UK claim to represent working people but all five Reform UK MPs voted with the Tories against Labour’s Employment Rights Bill to improve workers rights for millions around zero hours contracts, unfair dismissal from day one, sick pay, and partial bans on fire and rehire. Read more details about their Bill here.


Take away our human rights

Reform UK using the ‘immigration crisis’ as a justification to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, rejecting key principles of liberal democracy. In the same way that Brexit enabled the Tories to start removing all worker rights, leaving the ECHR would allow an authoritarian government in the future to remove all human rights from those living in Britain. To read the human rights in ECHR go here.


Economic vision

Reform’s economic policies are very concerning:

  • Reform UK will benefit electorally if Labour fails to grow the British economy, if people’s standards of living do not increase and public services underperform. Therefore Farage wants the British people to continue to suffer economically over the next 3-4 years so he does better in the general election. (https://youtu.be/2WZhRfwWGrI?si=GU33WXArneD3Z8Va )
  • Reform has proposed £150 billion in public spending cuts, wholesale deregulation of environmental, health and employment protections, and tax policies that would primarily benefit economic elites while devastating public services. 
  • The think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research described Reform UK’s 2024 manifesto tax cuts as providing “minimal benefits to lower-income households while significantly increasing the disposable income of higher-income households.” https://www.ippr.org/media-office/analysis-of-reforms-tax-plans


Replace the NHS

Farage has a history of stating that he wants to replace the NHS with a US insurance based healthcare system that prioritises profits over patients, which would increase the profits of private healthcare companies, while significantly increasing the costs of healthcare for everyone.

In 2019, Farage has denied wanting to replace the NHS with private insurance in one breath and then saying he wants to ‘gleefully’ opt out of the NHS. But because the public funding for the NHS comes from general taxation, this opt-out he supports would mean a drastic change to how the NHS is funded. We know that whenever the Tories or Farage get public support for reforms they go for the most extreme option they can get away with e.g. Brexit.

In 2024, Farage said, “I think we’re going to have to think about healthcare very very differently and I think we’re going to have to move to an insurance- based system of healthcare.

In January 2025, Farage said he was open to anything including a French insurance model.