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.
Rupert Lowe won his seat for Reform
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