Farage’s Reform Dials Back Pledges After First Shot at Governing

Life in government for Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform party has been sobering.

The group’s first crop of local leaders found that when their campaign rhetoric to ease the cost of living crisis crashed into reality, reality won. And while they have boasted about finding millions of pounds in spending cuts, they raised taxes in the nine councils they won control of last year, and major budget shortfalls litter their longer-term financial plans.