Reform 1st 100 Days

The event was billed as preparation for government rather than a traditional rally. Nigel Farage and his frontbench repeatedly framed the next election as imminent and promised to treat the country as being in a national emergency if they win.

Nigel Farage announced a 100-day blitz and a national emergency:

Farage told delegates he believed there would be an election next year and branded Prime Minister Andy Burnham “the Messiah without a mandate.” He pledged that a Reform government would stop the boats within 100 days, slash benefits spending by £50 billion, cut taxes on working people “in a radical way,” cut energy bills by £250 and “end the net zero lunacy.” He also promised more home-grown NHS staff and an end to judges relying on the European Convention on Human Rights.

To force the programme through he said he would declare a national emergency: all parliamentary recesses would be cancelled and Parliament would sit 24 hours a day, six days a week. Ministers who failed to deliver after 100 days would be sacked. Civil servants who resisted would be replaced with people from business. If the House of Lords blocked the agenda he would hold a referendum to scrap it. He also signalled that health and defence spokesmen would be appointed soon.

Farage and French National Rally leader Jordan Bardella signed a memorandum of understanding on stage. Under it the UK would intercept boats that had left French shores and entered British waters and return those on board to France; a National Rally government would “do everything in its power” to stop France remaining the gateway for illegal Channel crossings.

Robert Jenrick announced a £15,000 personal allowance and £80bn spending cuts:

On the final day Reform’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick pledged that the first Reform budget, within the first 100 days, would raise the tax-free personal allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 — “the first 15 grand you earn is yours.” He described it as the biggest rise in the allowance’s history and said the long-term ambition remained £20,000 once it was fully paid for. He challenged Burnham to match the commitment, framing the choice as “welfare waste, foreign aid and migrants — or the British worker.”

On the business day he had already set out the fiscal envelope: state spending would be cut by £80 billion a year by the end of the first term (about 6 per cent of government spending). In the first 100 days he envisaged more than £100 billion of savings, including £50 billion from welfare, £20–30 billion from other departments and £28 billion from lower debt interest. The party would keep the pensions triple lock, scrap net-zero targets in favour of “energy abundance,” abolish indefinite leave to remain, and turn off funding for selected quangos and foreign aid quickly.

Zia Yusuf announced the “largest mass deportation operation in modern history”:

Home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf told conference that a Reform government would move from “open borders to the most secure borders on earth.” He promised to deploy the Royal Navy to stop the boats and return people to France, and to launch the largest mass deportation operation in modern history, removing every foreign national who entered the country illegally. “The rights of the British people will reign supreme,” he said.

Suella Braverman announced a 20% cut in funding for “Mickey Mouse” degrees:

Education spokeswoman Suella Braverman pledged that within the first 100 days Reform would lift the cap on medical school places for British students and “invest like never before” in nurses. She also announced a 20 per cent cut in taxpayer funding for student loans and tuition fees on “Mickey Mouse” degrees — courses with poor teaching, poor graduate outcomes and little economic value, such as gender studies. She said this would save £4 billion and that a new value-for-money test would decide which degrees still received public support. Universities that did not protect free speech or that functioned as “visa factories” would lose funding. “If you want to study gender studies, pay for it yourself,” she said. The NHS, she added, should be a national health service, not an international one.

Richard Tice announced a £250 cut in energy bills and a planning overhaul:

Deputy leader and business, trade and energy spokesman Richard Tice pledged that in the first 100 days the average household energy bill would fall by £250 and that net-zero policies would end. He set out a “five-year emergency plan” for housing: strip affordable-housing requirements from developments outside a handful of major cities, scrap the Community Infrastructure Levy, and make new brownfield homes in town centres stamp-duty free, capital-gains-tax free and rental-income-tax free for a decade. He also promised an extra 50,000 social homes a year and a revived, more attractive Right to Buy. Town centres, he said, were in a “national crisis.”

Other speakers:

London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham promised zero-tolerance policing so that “criminals [are] looking over their shoulders, not Londoners.” Party chairman Lee Anderson opened proceedings with a blunt “Britain is broken” speech, repeating the commitment to detain and deport illegal migrants and attacking the media and the two main parties. Scottish and Welsh leaders Malcolm Offord and Dan Thomas also addressed the hall.

The conference was disrupted by protesters (including an exploding banner during Tice’s speech that Greenpeace claimed) and overshadowed by a Channel 4 sting that led to the permanent suspension of two senior aides, James Orr and Dan Jukes. Farage and Jenrick insisted the party had done nothing wrong and that the focus should stay on the 100-day programme.

Taken together, the announcements amount to a tightly sequenced first-term plan: rapid welfare and spending cuts to fund tax relief, an immediate immigration crackdown including a France-return deal, energy-price cuts and planning liberalisation, and a reorientation of higher education and NHS staffing towards British-trained workers. Whether the numbers add up and whether the parliamentary tactics Farage described would survive contact with reality will be tested if and when voters give Reform the chance.

Reform plead for 100 days in government:

Immigration and borders

• Stop the boats within 100 days.

• Intercept boats that left French shores and entered British waters and return people on board to France (memorandum of understanding signed with Jordan Bardella / National Rally).

• Deploy the Royal Navy to stop crossings and return people to France.

• Launch the largest mass deportation operation in modern history — remove every foreign national who entered illegally.

• Abolish indefinite leave to remain and create a longer, harder path to citizenship.

• Effectively freeze net migration.

• Leave the ECHR / stop judges relying on it (existing party line restated).

Tax and spending:

• Raise the tax-free personal allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 in the first Reform budget (first 100 days). Long-term aim remains £20,000 when fully paid for.

• Cut state spending by £80 billion a year by the end of the first term.

• More than £100 billion of savings in the first 100 days, including:

  • £50 billion from welfare

  • £20–30 billion from other departments

  • £28 billion from lower debt interest

• Keep the pensions triple lock.

• Scrap net-zero targets; pursue “energy abundance.”

• Quickly turn off funding for selected quangos and foreign aid.

Energy and cost of living

• Cut the average household energy bill by £250 in the first 100 days.

• End “net zero lunacy.”

Housing and planning (Richard Tice)

• Five-year emergency planning overhaul for brownfield / town-centre housing.

• Scrap affordable-housing requirements outside a few major cities.

• Scrap the Community Infrastructure Levy.

• New brownfield residential homes: stamp-duty free, CGT-free and rental-income-tax free for 10 years.

• Extra 50,000 social homes a year.

• Revive a more attractive Right to Buy.

Education and NHS (Suella Braverman)

• Lift the cap on medical school places for British students.

• Big extra investment in nurse training (“home-grown” doctors and nurses).

• Cut taxpayer funding for student loans/tuition on “Mickey Mouse” degrees by 20% (said to save about £4 billion).

• Value-for-money test for degrees; no public funding for courses with poor outcomes or that don’t serve the UK economy.

• No more funding for “woke” degrees (e.g. gender studies) or universities that don’t protect free speech or act as “visa factories.”

• NHS described as a national, not international, health service.

How they say they will force it through (Nigel Farage):

• Declare a national emergency on day one.

• Cancel parliamentary recesses; Parliament to sit 24 hours a day, six days a week.

• Sack ministers who fail to deliver after 100 days.

• Fire resistant civil servants and replace them with people from business.

• Referendum to scrap the House of Lords if it blocks the programme.

Other:

• Zero-tolerance crime approach in London (Laila Cunningham).

• Detain and deport illegal migrants (Lee Anderson restating the line).

These are the numbered or time-bound pledges speakers put on stage during the conference. Broader existing Reform policies (full Operation Restoring Justice package, VAT threshold already announced at £150,000, etc.) were referenced but not all newly unveiled this week.