{"id":117497,"date":"2025-09-06T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117497\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:16:10","slug":"do-reforms-economic-plans-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117497\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Reform’s economic plans add up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As well as cutting taxes, Reform’s manifesto also said it would considerably increase spending, including on the NHS, defence, policing and prisons.<\/p>\n

It said its health pledges would cost \u00a317bn a year and its defence pledges \u00a314bn a year and total spending pledges would add up to \u00a353bn a year.<\/p>\n

Since the election, Reform has pledged to deport some 600,000 unauthorised migrants over the next Parliament, which it has claimed would cost \u00a310bn but save \u00a317bn – so delivering a net saving of \u00a37bn over the Parliament.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In his conference speech on Friday, Nigel Farage also pledged to cut welfare spending<\/a>, but did not lay out any specifics about which benefits would be targeted and by how much,<\/p>\n

Also, in May 2025, he backed lifting the two-child benefit cap, which carries an estimated cost of \u00a32.5bn a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as cutting taxes, Reform’s manifesto also said it would considerably increase spending, including on the NHS,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-117497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}