NIGEL FARAGE was elected as an MP for the first time during the 2024 General Election.
In the four seats won by Reform, he will be joined by Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Rupert Lowe.
Who is Reform MP for Great Yarmouth Rupert Lowe?
Rupert Lowe is the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth after being elected in the 2024 General Election.
He is a farmer and businessman who previously represented the West Midlands as a Member of the European Parliament.
From 1996 until 2006, he was the chairman of Southampton football club.
He became Reform UK’s third elected MP out of four seats.
Mr Lowe won with a majority of 1,426 over the Labour Party.
The seat was the former constituency of ex-Tory Chairman Brandon Lewis.
How many seats did Reform win in the 2024 General Election?
At the time of writing, Reform managed to secure four seats in the 2024 General Election.
Leader of the party Nigel Farage managed to win his seat in Clacton.
Reform also managed to win Boston and Skegness
What did Reform propose in their manifesto?
Here’s a look at Reform’s proposals on their manifesto:
NHS and social care
- Cut NHS waiting lists to zero in two years
- Income tax exemption for front-line workers
- Tax relief on private healthcare and insurance
- Public inquiry into excess Covid deaths and vaccine harm
- Review of all NHS private contracts
- Adopt French-style healthcare system
Tax and spending
- Raise minimum income tax threshold
- Scrap stamp duty on properties under £750,000
- Inheritance tax abolished for estates under £2 million
- Scrap VAT on energy bills
- Reduce Government spending
- Half foreign aid budget
Economy
- Reduce corporation tax
- Abolish IR35 rules
- Scrap business rates for small and medium firms
- Raise VAT threshold
Environment
- Nationalise utility companies
- Fast track brownfield development sites
- Increase farming budget
- Rebuild fishing processes
Energy and net zero
- Abandon existing carbon emission targets
- Accelerate North Sea oil and gas licences
- Scrap annual green energy subsidies
- Speed up clean nuclear energy
Education and child care
- Scrap student loan interest
- Ban teaching gender ideology and critical race theory
- Introduce political bias or cancel culture fines for universities
- Tax relief for private schools
- Introduction of home economics
- Double pupil referral units
- Make school curriculum more “patriotic”
Defence
- Invest in housing for Armed Forces
- Upgrade Office for Veterans’ Affairs
- Free education for troops and veterans
- Basic pay increase
- New Armed Forces Justice Bill
- Increase defence spending
- Recruit 30,000 new soldiers
Pensions and welfare
- Back-to-work push
- Withdraw jobseekers’ benefits
- Face-to-face PIP assessments
- Remodel savings and pension system
Policing and crime
- Increase police numbers
- Enforcement of “zero tolerance” policing
- Review of police leadership teams
- Abolish all diversity, equality and inclusion roles and regulations
- Automatic life imprisonment for violent offenders
- High-intensity training camps for young offenders
- Deport child groomers with dual nationality
Migration
- Immigration tax
- Leave European Convention on Human Rights
- Freeze “non-essential” migration
- Abolish Home Office
- Reduce student visas
- Ban new arrivals from receiving benefits
Brexit
- Axe all remaining EU laws
- Scrap the Windsor Framework
- Renegotiate Brexit trade deal
Families
- Marriage tax allowance on income up to £25,000
- “Frontload” benefits system to allow mothers to stay at home
- Promote development of child-friendly smartphones
- Inquiry into social media harms
Transport
- Scrap HS2
- Ban Ulez
- Axe 2035 ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars
- Outlaw creation of 20mph zones
- Bring 50 per cent of utilities companies into public ownership
Constitution and culture
- Scrap the TV licence
- Introduce free speech bill to prevent political bias in public institutions
- Make St George’s Day a bank holiday
- Make the House of Lords more democratic
- Reform postal voting to tackle fraud
- Quit the WHO unless it undergoes fundamental restructuring
