Reform UK 2024 manifesto: fact checked Full Fact

We expect Reform UK to launch its 2024 manifesto around Monday 17 June and we’ll be fact checking it in full.

While we don’t know yet exactly what the manifesto will include, the party has reportedly already pledged to save £50bn a year by cutting “wasteful spending” and bureaucracy if elected.

Last year we published a list of 10 manifesto standards we think political parties should meet to make sure their offerings are honest, accessible and meaningful. These include ensuring claims made in manifestos are factually correct, not misleading to voters and supported with evidence wherever possible.

We publicly called on then-Reform UK leader Richard Tice and other party leaders to support these and other standards, writing to him in November 2023 and January 2024 to outline the following demands:

1. Make sure the claims you, your party and candidates make are truthful.
2. Set out your manifesto in ways that allow meaningful scrutiny of your pledges.
3. Ensure your advertising is honest and truthful, and commit to have your political advertising independently regulated.
4. Do not use deceptive campaigning tactics to gain votes, and commit to new rules for honest party campaigning practices.

At the time of writing we have yet to receive any indication from either Mr Tice or Reform UK’s new leader Nigel Farage that they agree.

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