As well as cutting taxes, Reform’s manifesto also said it would considerably increase spending, including on the NHS, defence, policing and prisons.
It said its health pledges would cost £17bn a year and its defence pledges £14bn a year and total spending pledges would add up to £53bn a year.
Since the election, Reform has pledged to deport some 600,000 unauthorised migrants over the next Parliament, which it has claimed would cost £10bn but save £17bn – so delivering a net saving of £7bn over the Parliament.
We don’t have a detailed document from Reform, breaking down these costs and where these savings would be made, so it’s not possible to verify this.
But these costings would, in any case, be subject to very high uncertainty. Any savings would depend on how much of a deterrent it would be in discouraging asylum seekers from coming to the UK.
In his conference speech on Friday, Nigel Farage also pledged to cut welfare spending, but did not lay out any specifics about which benefits would be targeted and by how much,
Also, in May 2025, he backed lifting the two-child benefit cap, which carries an estimated cost of £2.5bn a year.