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Reform UK’s Deportation Command: What It Is, Where It Comes From, and What It Would Mean
Reform in Power 22 Apr 2026

Reform UK’s Deportation Command: What It Is, Where It Comes From, and What It Would Mean

Reform UK wants to build a British version of Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. They are calling it the UK Deportation Command, and they say it will deport up to 288,000 people a year. The evidence from the US shows what that kind of operation looks like in practice. View this post on […]

REFORM UK, GRENFELL, AND THEIR RESPONSE TO THE TRAGEDY
Reform in Power 15 Apr 2026

REFORM UK, GRENFELL, AND THEIR RESPONSE TO THE TRAGEDY

Simon Dudley, a former executive at Homes England and the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation who joined Reform in February, said the deadly blaze was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Reform Files (@thereformfiles) On 2 April 2026, Simon Dudley, Reform UK’s newly appointed […]

Reform UK’s Council Tax Promise: What They Said, What They Did, and How Farage Tried to Wriggle Out of It
Missing context Reform in Power 9 Apr 2026

Reform UK’s Council Tax Promise: What They Said, What They Did, and How Farage Tried to Wriggle Out of It

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Reform Files (@thereformfiles) Reform UK won control of ten English councils in May 2025 on the back of a simple promise: cut waste, cut your taxes. Within months, those same councils were raising council tax. When challenged, Nigel Farage tried to claim he’d never made […]