In Kent, Nigel Farage has said that the immigration policies of Labour and Conservatives cannot be differentiated. From his perspective, the Conservative Party are beyond hope and have ‘destroyed themselves’ while Labour leader Keir Starmer has ‘no substantive policy’. Reform UK policy positions the Tories and Labour as ‘Two Sides of the Same Socialist Coin.’

Farage has repeatedly affirmed that immigration to the UK via small boats on the Channel is an ‘invasion’, as quoted by the BBC. He maintains his choice of language to describe UK migration.

 Reform UK places immigration policy as a core priority, proposing net zero immigration. Party leader Richard Tice has cited the hypocrisy of the Conservative Party who promised to restrict immigration yet under their government net migration has reached record levels in 2022. Corroborating this view, Farage says the Conservatives lack a strong immigration policy.

The former UKIP MP is worried about the rise of sectarian dynamics within British politics and anti-British ideas. Farage refuted that he was Islamophobic by saying that British Muslims are the group who are most vulnerable to this growing sectarianism. Though he attributed the growing hatred for British values to British Muslims, he reiterated he was not attacking Islam but rather highlighting the serious issue.

Concerns over UK culture wars and the stagnancy in political debate between the two main parties which Farage refers to, has recently benefitted Reform. Reform UK’s popularity has increased by 16 percentage points in the 2024 opinion polls, The Telegraph reports.

Reform UK is a political party which was previously known as the Brexit Party prior to 2021. It is a right-wing conservative party which has seen defectors from the Conservative Party including Lee Anderson who joined Reform this March. 

The Party champions Brexit and the slogan ‘Let’s Make Britain Great Again’, through economic, energy, public sector, and institutional reform. It proposes lower taxes, cheaper energy, and no more waiting lists. It argues for no ‘woke ideologies in the classroom’ and for the UK to remove itself from the European Convention on Human Rights in alignment with its pro-Brexit approach.

Farage, the former leader of the Brexit Party and of UKIP, has been heavily influential in the Reform UK campaign. He is a notable supporter of the Party and will become the new leader of Reform UK. Furthermore, Farage will stand as a candidate in the 2024 General Election for the Clacton seat. Farage has said ‘I can’t turn my back on the people’s army’ defending his changed perspective and desire to orchestrate what he terms “the political revolt” which Reform UK symbolises, Sky News reveals.

In the upcoming General Election, Reform UK will run in 630 seats out of the 650 in the UK. Farage’s criticisms hint at current apathy towards the two main political parties in the UK though it is predicted from the polls that Labour will win in the General Election.

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