The Reform United Kingdom party, led by Nigel Farage, presented this Monday (17) at an event in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, a political plan for the election in the country, which will be held on July 4.
The latest polls have shown that Reform UK should be the second most voted party in the election, ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives and behind only Labor.
At the launch of the 24-page document, which he described as a “contract” with voters for the next five years, Farage stated that his party does not believe it will win the election: the presentation of the plan aims to make it clear how it will act of the party’s parliamentarians during a likely labor administration.
“We are not pretending that we are going to win this general election,” Farage said. “Our goal and our ambition is to build a bridge in Parliament and become a true opposition to a Labor government,” she added.
Reformists have suggested immediately freezing “non-essential” immigration, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and taking migrants arriving in small boats back to France before landing on British shores.
They also proposed an extra payroll tax on companies that employ foreign workers.
A survey by the YouGov institute released last week showed Reforma UK with 19% of voting intentions, and the Conservative Party with 18%. The Labor Party, led by Keir Starmer, topped the poll with 37%.
Nigel Farage, a decisive name in the campaign for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union in 2016, which ended up being approved in the referendum (the so-called Brexit), announced at the beginning of the month that he will run in the general election, in which he will contest the seat in Parliament representing Clacton, a city in southeast England.
He was unsuccessful in seven previous attempts to be elected to the British legislature and had said he would not run this year, but later changed his mind.
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