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Is Reform changing its tune on voting reform?

20 May 2025

5:30 PM

20 May 2025

5:30 PM

With more than 650 councillors and a new MP to boot, Nigel Farage’s teal army is clearly on the up. But while Reform UK is always happy to call out others’ volte faces – including Starmer’s Brexit ‘betrayal’ – Farage’s party has now U-turned on one of its own manifesto promises: voting reform. Reform’s ‘Contract with You’, published last July, promised:

Proportional Representation Voting for the House of Commons.

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