ReformUK Storming Ahead in UK

ReformUK gains momentum as UK's right-wing divides deepen; Nigel Farage leads amid Conservative struggles, anti-immigration splits, and rising public frustration with immigration policies.

- ANTONIA FILMER

There was a certain poetic irony in seeing ReformUK broadcast their press conference from Millbank Tower, the former Conservative Campaign HQ. The event was billed as "Women for Reform," a stand-up against domestic abuse and violence against women, but why did they decide to have only women speakers? Surely men should want reform here too; and why no mention at all of the Pakistani grooming gangs that are responsible for some of the worst abuses against teenage girls? Pakistan's influence in UK is mostly missing from ReformUK's narrative.

As is typical with ReformUK's past campaigning, the conference focused on what is wrong with the country. Some folks are beginning to find the recurring theme of banging on about the dire state of UK's irresponsible immigration policies tiresome without providing any solutions; with 50,000 illegal small boat migrants since Keir Starmer took office, it is solutions UK needs.