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‘Posturing’: Farage’s Reform-quake so far limited to small acts of ‘war on woke’


Reform promised much to voters and now runs £8bn worth of public services. After three weeks, what has party accomplished?

When Nigel Farage held a victory lap of England after his mammoth local elections win on 1 May, he was characteristically bullish about Reform UK’s plan to shake up town halls.

The party would send in Elon Musk-style budget-slashing units, he said, while promising to turf out asylum seekers and any civil servants working on climate change or diversity.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/24/posturing-farages-reform-quake-so-far-limited-to-small-acts-of-war-on-woke

Author : Josh Halliday, Diane Taylor and Ben Quinn

Publish date : 2025-05-24 05:00:00

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