EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage’s Party, Reform UK “stands ready to fix Britain”, he tells Express leaders.
Reform UK stands ready to fix Britain, Nigel Farage has told readers of the Express, in an exclusive letter that sees the party’s leader pledge to be on the side of working people. The intervention comes after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her “tax-raising Budget”.
Mr Farage, who is the favourite to be Britain’s next Prime Minister according to successive months of opinion polling, said that he takes the prospect of entering Number 10 “seriously” as he said his party was “building a team to turn our economy around”. He said that any Government he would leave would “not be full of career politicians”, but instead made up of “people who have done things in the real world, who know how money is made and should be spent”.
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage told Express readers he would not let them down (Image: Getty Images)
In the letter, he took aim at other parties, saying that “clueless politicians have never run a business and have no idea how the real world works”. Mr Farage said that he would not be surprised if a “financial crisis causes an early General Election”.
Reform UK, he said, would be ready in such an eventuality, and would defend Britons who work hard and pay their taxes, and “keep this country running”.
He bemoaned the state of the country, saying that the economy was “in desperate trouble” and said that Express readers could “see for yourself that nothing works anymore”.
With growth slow, and energy prices higher than most other countries, Mr Farage took aim at taxes, which are at a post-war high, as well as the treasury having to fork out £100billion a year just to pay off debts.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the favourite to be the country’s next PM (Image: PA)
And he criticised uncontrolled levels of immigration, which Mr Farage said was “draining our nation”.
In the solemn pledge to readers of this paper, he said these grim statistics were the “record of 14 years of Conservative Government” and then questioned what “side are Labour on?”
He urged readers to recall that they have spent 18 months “coming for pensioners, homeowners, savers, small businesses, anybody aspiring for a better life” as he blasted “even if [Labour] promise something today, they will take it away tomorrow”.
Mr Farage said that Reform would “strive to make work pay” and added that they would always be on the side of small and family-run businesses. He pledged to “reduce the bloated welfare state” as well as raise the threshold where people start to pay income tax “as soon as possible”.
He also promised to bring down energy bills by “scrapping crazy Net Zero targets”.
Mr Farage ended his pledge to our readers, saying that his party will be ready in time for the next election, with a plan to “make Britain once again the best place to start a business, raise a family and build a future”.
“I will not let you down,” wrote Mr Farage.
The letter, which features in the Daily Express in full, marks the first from the leader of Reform UK to readers of this paper since the last General Election.
It comes as Reform UK revealed that they have spent £1 million on campaigning ahead of the Autumn Budget.
The spend, which highlights the growing level of support the party has been enjoying from businesses, donors and members of the public, has gone towards double-page spread ad buys, landmark press conferences, and targeted digital ads.
Reform UK has also spent considerable sums on its landmark press conferences, including the launch of Small Business for Reform at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London, which was attended by 300 small and medium-sized business owners and featured a keynote speech from Checkatrade founder Kevin Byrne.
This launch resulted in more than 3,000 small businesses backing Reform’s campaign to cut red tape and regulation, and more support for British SMEs.
As part of the party’s pre-budget campaign, Deputy Leader Richard Tice made a keynote address to business leaders at Bloomberg, and Head of Policy Zia Yusuf addressed members of the CBI at their annual conference.
