What are the main reform policies in the United Kingdom?

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After the United Kingdom reform took control of a series of councils in the English local elections last week, closer attention is being given to the Populist Party Policy Platform on the right.

There will be intense scrutiny over the coming months of what Nigel Farage insurgent dress has promised, both nationally and in areas where it will now supervise the services of the Board.

What are the key national reform policies?

In the general election last summer, the reform launched a tough campaign on an anti-“awakened”, anti-net zero and anti-immigration agenda.

Its manifesto promised to stop “small boats” of illegal immigrants crossing the English channel, including the European Court of Human Rights.

He pledged to detain and process illegal immigrants outside the coast, if necessary, to ban foreign students to bring dependents to the United Kingdom, impose a five -year residence requirement to access public services and freeze all other “non -essential” immigration.

The reform also pledged to deport criminals born abroad at the end of their prison and withdraw the status of citizenship of immigrants who commit all low -level crimes.

The Pro-Brexit party also said that it would scratch the remaining EU laws that are applied to the United Kingdom and half of the foreign aid.

He presented a large agenda of state, which promised to remove more than one million SMEs from corporate tax and increase the VAT billing threshold from £ 90,000 to 150,000 to “release small businessmen from the red tape”. Farage has also said that the inheritance tax should be completely scrapped.

The reform has promised to facilitate the hiring and the trait and its deputies voted against the Labor government legislation aimed to strengthen workers’ rights.

Farage has requested that the NHS financing model be “reeximated”, although last year’s reform manifesto was committed to a free health service at the point of use.

However, before the local election last week, in which it was aimed at the areas of work and conservatives, the reform began to be presented more Traditionally left -wing economic policies.

Farage supported the nationalization of both the British Steel scuntthorpe plant and the failing water companies, as well as workers In Birmingham.

But the party is still vocifiously anti-net zero.

Last year’s reform was warned that zero’s net policies were “paralyzing the economy”, promising to scrap green energy grants, grant fracking licenses, and begin northern sea licenses for Gas and Oil.

What is the reform promised locally?

The reform now controls 10 tips and several billion pounds in local services, such as social care, maintenance of roads and libraries.

There were also two reform metro mayors (for Greater Lincolnshire and Hull and East Yorkshire) with limited powers on broader transport, skills and development.

In all these campaigns, the party promised a Repression in the Style DOGE In waste, reflecting Elon Musk’s war on government spending in the United States.

Darren Grimes, a loss campaign figure during the 2016 Brexit referendum and now Durham County Counselor, said that the party would send auditors to local authorities in order to purge waste.

The party has quoted the expenses classes as wasted, such as in ergonomic chairs, on various English councils. The reform also pledged to break the initiatives of diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) and reduce the commitment of local authority to the net zero agenda.

He has promised to block the housing of asylum seekers in hotels in the areas he controls.

The reform had initially promised to prohibit all national flags that were flown from its city councils, although a quick reaction in various places caused the regional flags to be allowed, such as Lancashire’s red rose.

In Greater Lincolnshire, the new mayor Andrea Jenkyns has promised to work with the labor government on his “new populations” housing program.

How achievable are local reform policies?

The English local government has been in the financial crisis for years, with more and more budgets assumed by the increase in social care costs.

The reform can identify examples of expenses that they consider to be wasted, said local government expert professor Tony Travers, but the council’s budgets had little space for the maneuver.

“The difficulty they will find is that most counties spend 60, 70, 80 percent social care for children and adults,” he said. “You are not spent on the wake up cords.”

Farage warned Local DEI officials to look for “alternative races” after their game’s victories last week. But this work is often achieved on other roles, while in some cases it is obliged by national law, such as the Equality Law of 2010.

The party still does not have to ski exactly how it would prevent the housing of asylum seekers by the home office, on which the councils have not had any historically.

The President of Reform, Zia Yusuf, has promised to “use all the power instruments available” to block these locations, including through the courts, although the previous legal challenges of the councils have had a variety of results.

By 2022, Stoke’s Council, led by the Conservative, did not get a court order in the use of a hotel for asylum seekers accommodation for planning land.