{"id":361224,"date":"2025-08-21T04:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/361224\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:57:11","slug":"why-reform-sees-votes-in-pledging-to-bring-back-british-babies-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/361224\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Reform sees votes in pledging to bring back British babies \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about working parents only,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are absolutely not talking about families that are completely on benefits, and therefore we are not supporting a benefit culture, because that is absolutely against what Reform stands for.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The tightrope\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Family-first politics is a risky pitch from the populist right, though, particularly for an anti-woke party haunted by accusations of having a gender problem.<\/p>\n<p>Reform\u2019s mantra \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2KrXHPhSwv0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family, community, country<\/a> \u2014 echoes U.S.-style conservatism, though Pochin insists the party is \u201cabsolutely not\u201d drawing any culture wars inspiration from across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/13011284-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7040769\"  \/>Reform\u2019s mantra \u2014\u00a0family, community, country \u2014 echoes U.S.-style conservatism. | Adam Vaughan\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just core values stuff,\u201d she said. \u201cBritain has always been a traditional country with traditional family values, and that seems to have been lost.\u201d Pochin went on to say that the government is more interested in \u201csupporting, for example, asylum seekers and housing asylum seekers,\u201d adding that she wants to \u201cget back to\u00a0our\u00a0traditions,\u00a0our\u00a0culture,\u00a0our\u00a0values \u2014 and we believe that starts with the family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the U.K., you guys are a more secular society with religion less politically engaged [in discourse],\u201d explained Patrick Brown, Republican family policy expert at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That secularism matters, politically. If Farage were to adopt a harder line on issues like abortion or gay marriage, for example, \u201che would risk putting himself at odds with public opinion \u2014 including among his own supporters,\u201d warns More in Common\u2019s O\u2019Geran.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re talking about working parents only,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are absolutely not talking about families that are completely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[5108,748,1193,2766,393,4884,2190,40,2199,384,1144,712,1200,16,15,49,1764,12340],"class_list":{"0":"post-361224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-asylum","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-culture","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-hungary","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-northern-ireland","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-tax","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-welfare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115064985779654260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}