Reform UK Policy
Reform’s tax plan would funnel billions to the richest. Everyone else pays.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies analysed Reform UK’s plans and concluded they would require “substantial cuts to the quantity or quality of public services” to fund. “Even with extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up.”
Reform proposes raising the inheritance tax threshold to £2 million and cutting the rate to 20%. Around half the gain would go to the richest 1% of estates — averaging a £1 million tax cut each. The 90%+ of people whose estates pay no IHT today get nothing.
Source: House of Commons Library — Inheritance tax: current policy and debates
On LBC in January 2025, Nigel Farage said he is “open to anything” on replacing NHS funding with an insurance-based model. Reform’s policy includes 20% tax relief on private healthcare — a public subsidy to those who can already afford private cover.
Source: Byline Times · LBC
Christopher Harborne (a Cambridge-educated, Thai-resident investor with reported Tether links), hedge-fund manager Jeremy Hosking, and party chair Richard Tice. Harborne alone has given more than £24 million since 2019 — roughly two-thirds of all the funding the party has ever received.
Source: Democracy for Sale · openDemocracy
And while you decide whether voting Reform helps you, here’s what their newest campaign site asks you to believe.
Fact-check
On 4 May 2026, three days before the Senedd election, Reform UK published votegreengetillegals.com, claiming it would prioritise Green-held areas for new immigration detention centres. Three things that site says — and what’s actually true.
“The Green Party advocate for open borders.”
The Green Party of England and Wales has a managed-migration policy: end the hostile environment, reduce visa fees to actual cost, abolish minimum income requirements for family visas. “World without borders” is a long-range aspiration, immediately qualified in the manifesto by “until this happens” with a managed system. Source.
“Detention capacity for at least 24,000 illegal migrants at a time.”
The UK currently has approximately 2,200 immigration-detention beds (Migration Observatory). 24,000 is roughly an 11× expansion of the entire detention estate. Source.
“We will prioritise Green-held constituencies and Green-run councils.”
Cross-party criticism for using public infrastructure as a political weapon. Labour Party chair Anna Turley: “Threatening to punish places where people don’t vote your way is a betrayal of basic democratic principles.” Source.