Three times Reform UK pledged to scrap schemes that don’t exist
Reform UK wants to scrap anything with even a hint of ‘woke’ about it. Now that they run 10 councils, they have their opportunity.
There’s just one problem: they keep targeting schemes that just don’t exist – at least not outside the imagination of the right wing press.
Reform’s phony war on ‘woke’, informuk.org
Day: 26 May 2025
Challenging Reform’s failure on data rights
Nigel Farage’s Reform refuses to tell people whether it has their data and doesn’t delete it when they ask. We’re challenging Reform so it respects data law.
When we gave people tools to find out what data political parties were holding on them in the run-up to the general election, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was by far the worst, ignoring the vast majority of requests.
Not only did Reform fail to respond to requests for the data that they hold on individuals – as all organisations that hold data on individuals are required to do by law – but they also refused to delete that data.
No organisation, especially a political party, should be allowed to ignore fundamental data rights.
Good Law Project
New Leicestershire Reform councillor was fired from police force
New Leicestershire Reform councillor was fired from police force
His actions were branded ‘deliberate’ and ‘for personal advantage’
A newly elected Leicestershire councillor was fired from his previous job with Leicestershire Police. Andrew Hamilton-Gray, one of the new county councillors for Loughborough, was sacked by the force in January 2024 following a misconduct hearing.
New Leicestershire Reform councillor was fired from police force, leicestermercury.co.uk
Swinney accuses Reform of racism over Sarwar advert
Swinney accuses Reform of racism over Sarwar advert
First Minister John Swinney has accused Reform UK of a “racist attack” on Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.
Both the SNP and Labour have complained to Facebook’s parent company Meta about a Reform advert running on the site ahead of a South Lanarkshire by-election.
The video features text claiming Sarwar “will prioritise the Pakistani community”.
Reform has denied the video is racist and said it has no plans to take it down.
Swinney accuses Reform of racism over Sarwar advert, BBC
Reform scraps Derbyshire’s flood prevention work
Reform scraps Derbyshire’s climate change committee, prompting fears on flood prevention work
Derbyshire has been hit by numerous floods in recent years and this committee handled much of the work to mitigate future damage and assist residents and businesses
Reform has scrapped Derbyshire’s committee on climate change, biodiversity and carbon reduction, with fears this will directly impact flood prevention. In its first series of decisions with the keys to Derbyshire County Council, Reform UK has chosen to axe one of the authority’s scrutiny committees, formed four years ago by the Conservatives.
Reform scraps Derbyshire’s climate change committee, prompting fears on flood prevention work, derbytelegraph.co.uk