Overview
- Reform UK details a five-year Operation Restoring Justice to identify, detain and deport illegal migrants, building new removal centres within 18 months to enable up to 24,000 deportations a month and as many as 600,000 in its first parliament.
- The party says it would leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and introduce a British bill of rights to limit legal barriers to deportations.
- Its fiscal plan calls for cutting 68,500 government jobs, reducing welfare outlays and moving new public-sector staff to defined-contribution pensions, with tax cuts deferred until there is fiscal headroom.
- Energy and industry proposals include maximising domestic oil and gas, a rapid nuclear build-out, scrapping net-zero and zero-emission vehicle mandates, and using quotas and tariffs to restrict Chinese electric vehicles.
- The wider agenda includes a ‘patriotic’ school curriculum, stricter discipline and a ban on social and gender transitioning for pupils, repeal of the Equality Act and DEI targets, hospitality tax cuts, a £250,000 ‘Britannia’ investor visa and a crypto bill creating a Bank of England bitcoin reserve.