Reform vows to raise personal allowance to £15,000 as part of huge tax cuts plans Robert Jenrick pledged to resign if he failed to deliver the promise in the first 100 days of a Reform government Evening Standard · Sep 5
Farage brushes aside Reform controversies in closing conference speech – UK politics as it happened ‘Sometimes we will get things wrong and get a bit of a kicking for it,’ party leader tells gathering in Birmingham The Guardian - UK · Sep 5
Robert Jenrick pledges tax cut amid row over Reform donations Reform said the plan would save the average taxpayer £500 a year and take 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether Evening Standard · Sep 5
Reform to promise tax cut for millions as donations row rumbles on Reform said the plan would save the average taxpayer £500 a year and take 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether The Independent UK · Sep 5
Kemi Badenoch is right – we must spend less on welfare and more on defence THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Andy Burnham says he agrees with the leader of the opposition, but that the savings should be made in a compassionate way – he too is right. The test is whether he can deliver The Independent UK · Sep 3
Conservative-Reform UK Rift Deepens as Robert Jenrick Attacks Kemi Badenoch Over Giorgia Meloni Row Robert Jenrick accuses Kemi Badenoch of lying about her meeting with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, intensifying tensions between the Conservative Party and Reform UK. International Business Times UK · Aug 26
With Nige still sulking, it was left to Honest Bob to unveil Reform UK’s latest ‘policies’ The sense of futility hanging over the room was almost overwhelming as Robert Jenrick took the stage The Guardian - UK · Aug 26
‘Pack of lies’: Robert Jenrick launches personal attack on Kemi Badenoch Reform MP seeks to heap pressure on Tory leader amid confusion around details of meeting with Giorgia Meloni The Guardian - UK · Aug 26
Reform UK blasted for 'unserious and unworkable' plans to scrap data protection laws REFORM UK have been condemned over their new “unworkable and unserious” plans to scrap date protection laws if the party get into government ... The National (Scotland) · Aug 26
Business owners would get £30 for HMRC phone delays, Jenrick announces The Reform UK Treasury spokesman said the plans were aimed at speeding up the tax office’s services for small businesses. Evening Standard · Aug 26
Reform UK pledges to scrap GDPR for ‘light-touch’ laws The party has pledged to axe the General Data Protection Regulation and expand a venture capital scheme offering tax relief to investors. Evening Standard · Aug 25
Badenoch plotted to remove Sunak as PM months before election, book claims Anthony Seldon’s book alleges Badenoch asked fellow Tory ministers ‘if anyone was interested in changing the captain’ The Guardian - UK · Aug 25
Badenoch says Reform defectors ‘some of the most dishonest people I have met’ Tory leader rules out coalition with Farage’s party and says ‘drama queens’ who left will not be welcomed back The Guardian - UK · Aug 22
Evening Standard · Aug 22 Kemi Badenoch rules out deals with Reform as she blasts ‘dishonest’ defectors The Tory leader some those who had left her party for Reform UK were ‘some of the most dishonest people’ she has met.
The Independent UK · Aug 21 Bridget Phillipson accuses senior Reform and Conservative politicians of making racist statements Equalities minister warns racism and sexism are ‘becoming normal’ in the UK
The Guardian - UK · Aug 20 Reform’s new economic adviser has called for end of pensioners’ triple lock Exclusive: Mitchell Palmer has also argued for privatising the NHS and immigration as way of cutting poverty
The Guardian - UK · Aug 20 Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough
The Independent UK · Aug 19 Reform civil war intensifies as Farage ally vows to challenge suspension and test if party can ‘tolerate free speech’ Tim Montgomerie says he will make his suspension a ‘test case’ for the party
The Independent UK · Aug 18 Cutting health benefits for young people could push thousands into poverty, charities warn Dozens of charities have urged ministers to focus on support and opportunity instead of ‘the failed punitive approaches of the past’
The Guardian - UK · Aug 18 Things get even more tricky for Dicky Tice, the Reform deputy with lots of cash but zero self-awareness Telling the country to enjoy the heat while it burns, you have to wonder if Tice has lost all sense of reality
The Independent UK · Aug 17 ‘We’re not scroungers – we need it’: Furious PIP claimants hit back at Reform’s plan to axe benefits Over half of the UK’s health benefit claimants would be stripped of their payments under the plans announced by Reform UK
The Guardian - UK · Aug 17 Huge number of children would fall into poverty under Reform’s benefits plans, say campaigners Party wants to cut £50bn from UK welfare bill but charity says proposals would cause ‘horrific levels of destitution’
The Independent UK · Aug 17 The welfare state needs reform – but not Reform THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Robert Jenrick’s suggestion that foreign nationals pay into the tax system but not be entitled to benefits is not the only self-defeating weakness in the party’s proposals
Euronews · Aug 17 Britain's Reform UK party pledges to strip all foreign nationals of benefits, including EU citizens "The welfare state is there for Britain. No British citizenship, no entitlement," Robert Jenrick, Reform's economics spokesperson, said on Monday.