Overview
- Robert Jenrick, newly styled as Reform’s economic lead, announced plans to restore the two‑child benefit cap and pledged to retain the OBR and Bank of England independence to calm markets.
- Richard Tice was named deputy prime minister–in‑waiting and given a business, trade and energy brief to form a growth‑focused “super department,” including abandoning net‑zero targets and creating a British wealth fund.
- Policy chief Zia Yusuf took the home affairs role with vows to cut legal and illegal migration, withdraw from treaties that block mass deportations, and deport people in the UK illegally.
- Suella Braverman became spokesperson for education, skills and equalities with plans to repeal the Equality Act, scrap the equalities department, and target half of school‑leavers going into trades.
- Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats attacked the line‑up as recycled Conservatives, while Nigel Farage insisted Reform is no longer a one‑man band and warned he would not tolerate public dissent.