Reform UK would reimpose 2-child benefit cap
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The former Conservative cabinet minister was announced by Nigel Farage as Reform's so-called shadow Chancellor. It comes just weeks after his defection to Reform UK directly from the Conservative frontbench, a move Tory leader Kemi Badenoch welcomed as part of her "spring cleaning ".
Reform UK's education spokesman Suella Braverman says the UK is being torn apart by "tokenism" and "victimhood".
By Alistair Smout and Sam Tabahriti LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Britain's right-wing Reform UK named ex-Conservative Robert Jenrick as finance policy chief on Tuesday, part of leader Nigel Farage's efforts to prepare his populist party for government in the event that it wins the next national election.
Party leader tells FT journalist she should ‘write some silly story’ after press conference revealing roles for his top team
Restore Britain forms a Kent County Council group after seven Reform councillors change sides.
REFORM UK's Richard Tice has said his party would look at cutting the minimum wage if it got into government.
LONDON — Reform UK would scrap Britain’s planned carbon border tax if it wins power, the party’s business and trade chief Richard Tice has said. Speaking to POLITICO on Tuesday, Tice vowed to ditch the U.K.’s new carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) as part of a broader rollback of climate levies.
Robert Jenrick will promise to reform the OBR, rather than abolish it, in a move to reassure financial markets.
Mr Jenrick will pledge not to abolish the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), instead promising "reform", and will say the Bank would remain independent if he were in No 11. His comments follow Nigel Farage’s naming of his top team on Tuesday, barely a month after Mr Jenrick left the Conservative front bench as shadow justice secretary.
The controversial comments came from Zia Yusuf, shortly after the party chair was handed the Home Affairs brief by Nigel Farage as part of his new Reform 'shadow cabinet'
By Alistair Smout and William Schomberg LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Britain's right-wing Reform UK party said it would make changes to the way the Bank of England and the country's budget arbiter operate but would respect their independence,
Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage has tapped a New Right intellectual with ties to President Donald Trump’s administration as his party’s new head of policy. James Orr, an English theologian and philosopher whom U.