Our Pledges to You — The First 100 Days

OUR PLEDGES TO YOU

Foreword by Nigel Farage MP

Britain is Broken, but it can be fixed. The Conservatives had fourteen years to control our borders, to cut taxes, to make our streets safer. Fourteen years to get Britain working again. They failed, and the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham refuses to hold an election and tells us he needs another ten years. Britain cannot afford to spend another decade managing decline as we watch our borders collapse, our debts grow, our public services deteriorate and another generation lose faith in our country. We need immediate action. That is why a Reform UK Government will begin to fix Broken Britain within 100 days of being elected. 100 days is not enough time to fix every problem. It is enough time for a Reform UK government to prove that the direction of this country can be changed, to take the decisions that governments have spent decades avoiding and to begin to turn Britain around – to prove the country is governable. For decades, politicians have asked the public to take all the risk. They vote for politicians, who fail to deliver, yet as people’s lives get worse those politicians remain unaccountable. Under a Reform Government this will stop. Every senior minister in my Government will make one clear 100-day pledge, written down and signed. Nobody will join the Reform UK front bench without a pledge. A Reform UK government will be made up of those who treat politics as a mission, and are prepared to put their reputations on the line for what they believe they can deliver. If they fail to deliver on their 100 day pledge, they will resign. If they don’t resign, I will sack them. I recognise that if I am demanding this of my ministers, then I have a responsibility too. In those 100 days I will give my ministers the tools they need to succeed. If the machinery of government can’t carry out the lawful instructions of elected ministers, we will fix it, whatever means necessary. I will never allow a Reform UK minister to stand in front of you and blame the system for their failure to deliver. Reform UK exists to change the system and to make it work for the British people And under a Reform Government in our First 100 days, we will achieve tangible things to make your lives better. Nigel Farage MP Leader of Reform UK

CONTENTS

Foreword by Nigel Farage MP

Summary

Education Pledge

Cut your Energy Bills Pledge

Stop the Boats Pledge

Cutting Tax Pledge

Costings

Endnotes

Summary

Each senior minister under a Reform UK Government will have pledged to achieve something tangible and impactful in their First 100 Days in post. If they fail to meet their pledge, they will resign or can expect to be sacked. Here are the first four pledges:

Education Pledge

top grades to obtain places.

Cut your Energy Bills Pledge

year. Stop the Boats Pledge

small boats and safely escort illegal migrants to their point of departure on Navy vessels. Cut your Tax Pledge

altogether.

pocket of Britain’s 13 million pensioners.

Education Pledge

Foreword by Suella Braverman MP

British students are being let down by the education system. For too long we have pushed young people who would thrive in an apprenticeship or vocational training into higher education, all in the service of fulfilling a 30-year-old fantasy dreamed up by Tony Blair. We cannot let this madness continue. Today, I am setting out my plan to rationalise the education system. Taking funding away from useless mickey mouse degrees, and properly funding the future British doctors, electricians, bricklayers and builders that this country desperately needs. Britain should be a country that rewards hard work and ambition, whether that comes in the form of a medical degree, or an advanced apprenticeship. The NEET crisis is getting out of control. Nearly a million young people have essentially been thrown on the scrap heap. Consigned to a life on PIP and government handouts, robbed of the dignity that hard work brings, denied the chance to pursue work that fits their talents and ambitions. A Reform government will put an end to this national tragedy, reform the education system, and bring back the opportunities that young British people are crying out for. We will cut the issuance of student loans by 20%, focusing on degrees with low economic value. We cannot continue to load our young people with tens of thousands of pounds of debt for a degree that can’t get them a job that’ll let them pay those loans back. We will lift the cap on medical school places while maintaining high standards for entry. Our over-reliance on foreign trained doctors is a disgrace. We cannot continue in good conscience to turn away bright young British students from medical courses while we import thousands of doctors from overseas. We will improve the offer to aspiring nurses, with 0% interest tuition and maintenance loans for domestic students. Being the daughter of an NHS nurse, I’ve seen firsthand the incredible dedication and hard work our nurses bring into work every day. They should be rewarded, not saddled with an ever growing debt pile that they have no prospect of ever paying off. The savings from these changes will fund our Skills Revolution. The Apprenticeship Wage Credit that I announced last month, worth over £4,700 per apprentice per year, and the £2,000 Apprenticeship Retention bonus, a real reward for completing an apprenticeship. Together, these measures will stop universities misselling low value degrees, fix the shortfalls in our domestic medical talent pipeline, and ensure that we have the skilled workers to build the economy of the future. The education system is broken. Education needs Reform. Suella Braverman MP Shadow Education, Skills and Equalities Secretary

How Reform UK will make higher education work A 20% Cut to Student Loan Issuance Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has demonstrated that over 20% of undergraduate students are financially worse off than if they had not gone to university, with the taxpayer losing money on about 40% of degrees.1 Reform UK will correct this. It is not the place of the government to determine which courses people choose to study. It is, however, the role of the government to ensure that taxpayer money is spent wisely, and to ensure that it does not subsidise institutions misleading pupils over their prospects. Under a Reform Government, only degrees with high economic returns will qualify for student loan funding. We will assess courses based on the outcomes of home students as recorded by the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes database, which links school and university data with HMRC earnings records. Courses assessed as being poor value for student money will be marked for review. The key measures in the assessment will be earnings progression and sustained employment in a prolonged period after graduation, so that courses are judged by the careers they enable rather than first jobs. Courses which are of strategic or cultural importance may be approved despite low earnings if they are judged to provide value to the taxpayer. We are clear, for instance, that all current courses training teachers, nurses, midwives and other allied medical professionals will be approved for loans. After the initial review process has concluded, certain courses will be marked as ineligible for student finance. This register will be updated on a regular basis as further information becomes available. It is important to note that no current student will be affected by this evaluation process. We will provide bridge funding for those currently enrolled when a course fails its assessment, allowing them to complete their studies. However, we will also make efforts to provide students with alternative options, including suitable apprenticeships. No student will be forced to leave a current course of study. Lifting the Cap on Medical School Places Successive governments have failed to train anywhere near the number of doctors required to sustain the National Health Service, leaving the country reliant on doctors trained overseas while turning away fully qualified British students. Some 20,000 foreign-trained doctors joined the medical register in 2023, and 6,320 foreign- trained nurses.2 Meanwhile, hundreds of students with at least 3 A*s are turned away from British medical schools each year, along with many other well-qualified applicants. This is the result of a choice made by politicians eager to hold down the cost of investing in British talent. It is also a false economy. While many doctors trained overseas are talented individuals, it is clear that many are recruited from countries where educational standards are simply lower than they are in Britain. As a result, while some of the world’s best medical talent is working in Britain, it is also the case that doctors trained overseas are referred to regulators with serious complaints at almost three times the rate of their British peers.3 Reform UK will end this reliance on poorly trained foreign doctors, while continuing to recruit high quality applicants. We will do so by lifting the cap on medical school places and training British applicants, while also maintaining high standards for entry.

0% Interest Loans for Nurses Nurses deserve a better deal. It’s not right that the people who care for our most vulnerable graduate to mountainous debts, with interest piling up every year. The Royal College of Nursing has been clear that these debts play a significant role in discouraging those who might otherwise have considered nursing as a career.4 Reform UK will fix this. For British nursing students, and for British nurse graduates who are working in the NHS, loan balances will be immediately frozen in cash terms, with a 0% interest rate applied. Every nurse working in the NHS will have a visible pathway towards clearing their student debts.

Cut your Energy Bills Pledge

Foreword by Richard Tice MP

Households have been squeezed year after year, despite the fact that the wholesale price of gas has fallen since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Successive Conservative and Labour governments have layered cost upon cost onto consumer bills in the name of Net Zero, with little regard to the struggles of the British billpayer that bears them. The cost of energy in the UK represents a national crisis. And as such, a Reform UK Government would take extraordinary measures to bring costs down, and restore fairness to the energy sector. We cannot continue to hit generators with charges for emissions that we inherited from the EU, and which the Conservatives failed to remove. We cannot continue to subsidise renewable generators that only provide electricity when the sun is shining, and leave everyone else to pick up the bill on cloudy days. We cannot continue to load policy costs onto the bills of some consumers to subsidise the bills of others. We cannot continue as we are. Reform UK will end this insanity, and put more money back into the pocket of the British billpayer. This is the first step in the most ambitious reorganisation of the British energy system in living memory. The mistakes of past governments have pushed our energy system to the point of collapse, and serious measures will be required to right these wrongs. We will lay out our plans for this reorganisation in a comprehensive energy plan in due course. But the British billpayer cannot afford to wait, action must be taken now to alleviate the burden. Reform UK will remove all government imposed policy costs from energy bills. We will shift the burden of poorly thought-through renewable subsidies to the Treasury while we pursue bad actors and unwind unfair contracts. We will end the madness of charging generators for their emissions, which adds hundreds of pounds onto electricity bills at a time where all are struggling. A Reform Government would take these measures within 100 days of taking office. Together, these changes would put an extra £250 a year back into your pockets. Energy prices are broken. Energy needs Reform. Richard Tice MP Deputy Leader and Shadow Business, Trade and Energy Secretary

How Reform UK will cut over £250 off of energy bills In total, our plan will remove over £250 per year from energy bills, through removing government policy costs from electricity and gas bills, scrapping carbon taxes on generators and permanently taking VAT off of consumer energy bills. Carbon Costs Currently, gas generators face two forms of carbon taxation. The first is the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which requires them to buy allowances per tonne of CO2 emitted. Current prices for allowances sit at around £58/tonne of CO2 emitted. This raises the wholesale cost of gas-fired generation, which usually sets the price for all electricity. The second is the Carbon Price Support (CPS), a top-up carbon tax on fossil fuel that is used in electricity generation, currently fixed at £18/tonne of CO2 emitted. Together, assuming a benchmark household consuming 3.1kWh5 of electricity per year, these taxes add c. £90 per year to energy bills, assuming gas generation sets the wholesale cost of electricity the vast majority of the time. Policy Costs Gas and electricity bills are loaded with a number of policy costs, principally these are:

Together, these represent an extra c. £80 on household energy bills, 6 assuming benchmark consumption rates for gas and electricity. A Reform Government would shift these costs to the treasury while we repeal statutory obligations to fund these programmes.

VAT

Reform UK was the first party to call for the removal of VAT from energy bills. Thankfully for consumers, Labour have started to copy our plans, but they do not go far enough. This Labour government has only committed to removing VAT for 6 months, and only from electricity bills. A complete removal of VAT from both domestic electricity and gas bills represents another c. £90 per year saving for the British billpayer.

Stop the Boats Pledge

Foreword by Zia Yusuf

The Uniparty has betrayed Britain. Since the year 2000, 19 million immigrants have come to Britain. And they are the ones we know about. The British people have never voted for this, indeed they explicitly voted against it, with every Conservative Party manifesto since 2010 promising to cut immigration to the tens of thousands. They lied to the public, who have seen their communities transformed. Even after the British public voted for Brexit - a demand to finally control our borders, their wishes were trampled on. No more. Reform UK, and I as Home Secretary, are committed to ensuring that every illegal immigrant currently in Britain is securely detained, and deported. Of all the failures of recent years, none are more egregious than allowing the English Channel, once our first line of defence, to become the highway for Britain’s invasion. Since the beginning of the Small Boats Crisis in 2018, over 200,000, mainly fighting age, illegal, unvetted men have entered Britain, on rubber dinghies. I will not refer to them as small boats - single vessels are now transporting over 200 people at a time. It is expected that before the next election, at least another 100,000 will invade Britain in this fashion. These are not simply statistics. Each unvetted illegal represents an unacceptable risk to public safety, particularly that of women and girls. The stories of rape, and even of murder, at the hands of these men who should not be here are heartbreakingly common. To protect our citizens, upon the election of a Reform UK Government, I as Home Secretary will launch Operation Fortress, deploying the Royal Navy in the English channel. We will monitor and intercept every single boat attempting to enter Britain. The illegals will not step foot on British soil, they will be transferred at sea and safely returned to France by a Navy vessel. The incentives to attempt the crossing will collapse, the invasion will cease. Our borders are broken. Immigration needs Reform. Zia Yusuf Shadow Home Secretary

How Reform will stop the boats Britain’s borders are broken. A Reform government will immediately enact Operation Fortress, deploying the Royal Navy to secure the English Channel. No one knows who is reaching our shores. Everyone arriving by small boat has crossed without a passport, without a visa, and without vetting by any authority. Many arrive having deliberately destroyed their documents. This presents a clear and present danger to Britain’s citizens and to her national security. Men who came by small boat have been convicted of murder and rape. There are credible reports that Iranian intelligence has used this route to locate operatives in Britain. Smuggling gangs in Calais and Dunkirk should not get to decide who enters this country. On current numbers, almost 100,000 more people will cross the Channel illegally and unvetted before the end of this Parliament - a number equivalent to the population of Lincoln. Operation Fortress is an end-to-end rescue and return operation led by the Royal Navy. It will ensure that every vessel carrying illegal migrants will be intercepted by the Royal Navy and everyone on board such a vessel will be returned to their country of departure. Operation Fortress will encompass:

Office the real time ability to track all incoming small boats

The Operation, which will operate in coordination with Operation Restoring Justice, will be lawful from Day 1. France is a safe third country. People who have passed through safe third countries on their way to the United Kingdom are ineligible for asylum.7 They have no lawful right to enter or remain in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, a future Rassemblement National Government in France has committed to accepting small boat migrants escorted back to France in the MoU it has signed with Reform UK.

Cutting Tax Pledge

Foreword by Robert Jenrick MP

Since 2021, the tax-free personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570, while prices have skyrocketed and wages have struggled to keep pace. Five chancellors have been and gone since it was last adjusted. Each year that passes means more of your money is taxed in real terms. This freeze has become a vital source of revenue for an overgrown state. Too cowardly to cut welfare, foreign aid, or the civil service, both Labour and the Tories have relied on taking more of your money by stealth. As a result, the tax burden today is higher at any point since 1947. Reform says enough is enough. In the first 100 days of a Reform Government, I will release a Budget that increases the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000. That will take effect at the beginning of the next tax year, and it will repair much of the damage done by successive chancellors’ neglect. It will deliver £486 in tax relief to most taxpayers and take 2.9 million taxpayers out of income tax altogether. It will be the single largest increase in the Personal Allowance in history. This is a bold pledge, but it is one we will achieve. In fact, I have staked my job on it – live and on camera, in front of thousands of Reform members in Birmingham. But I have reason to be confident: Our clear, costed programme of welfare reform, foreign aid cuts, and civil service retrenchment will deliver more than enough money to fund this and our other commitments. And we will have the mandate – and the mettle – to actually implement them. And, as our reforms bear fruit, we will make progress towards our long-term ambition of a £20,000 personal allowance. The British state is broken for everyone, but it is especially broken for British workers. Work hard and the state takes your money, only to throw it into the endless money pits of welfare and foreign aid. It fails to deliver the services you and your family rely on. It does not defend the country; instead, it spends your money on prosecuting those who have. It also runs up a large tab for your children to pay too. All the while, it keeps granting permanent residency to thousands of people who will be net drains on the Exchequer. The bargain we are offering is very different and very simple: If you work hard, we will make the state work for you. We will redirect money from the budgets that make no difference to you into your back-pocket or into critical national services. We will be careful, to make sure we don’t spook the financial markets, but we will be bold. We will ensure that the tax system once again rewards work, aspiration and independence. That is my pledge to you. Our economy is broken. Our economy needs Reform. Robert Jenrick MP Shadow Chancellor

How Reform UK will cut taxes The personal allowance is the amount of income on which you do not have to pay income tax. It has been frozen at £12,570 since 2021. The first Budget of a Reform government will increase the tax-free personal allowance for income tax to £15,000, beginning at the next tax year. This means no-one earning less than £100,000 will pay a penny of income tax on their first £15,000. That benefits approximately 40 million taxpayers, and takes 2.9 million earners out of income tax altogether. It also makes sure the state pension is untaxed for the entire OBR forecast window. For most earners, this will be worth £486 a year. This change will apply to income tax only and not to affect the higher rate threshold (which will stay at £50,270). The personal allowance taper will be retained at £1 in forgone personal allowance for every £2 over £100,000.

Costings

We estimate that implementing the commitments in this document will cost approximately £28 billion by the fifth year of a Reform government. Other previously announced tax and spend policies will cost a further £30 billion, for a total cost of £58 billion. Against this cost, we have identified £91 billion in itemised savings and new revenue sources. We estimate that increasing the personal allowance to £15,000 would cost £17.7 billion in this tax year and £21.1 billion in five years. This accounts for the increase in the labour market participation, as a result, as well as the effect of the personal allowance taper. Cutting energy bills is estimated to cost £9.9 billion by the fifth year. £2.1 billion comes from removing VAT, £4.8 billion comes from removing energy taxes, such as the Emissions Trading Scheme, and the remainder comes from bringing certain costs onto the books, such as the Feed-in Tariff scheme, and off people’s bills. Our education pledges will save money overall, by substantially reducing the hidden subsidies of student loans to useless degrees. We estimate that the 20% cut to student loan issuance saves £3.4 billion a year by the fifth year on the measure the fiscal rules score, and £4.7 billion in cash, by ending loans for the bottom 20% of places by graduate outcomes. Lifting the cap on medical school places from 7,670 to 17,000 costs £0.7 billion in the fifth year (£1.1 billion in cash), rising to £1.7 billion a year once five cohorts are in training. The 0% interest loans for nurses cost £131 million a year by the fifth year, with no cash cost within the Parliament because repayments are unchanged until a balance is cleared. Net of these costs, the education pledges save around £2.6 billion a year by the fifth year.8 These commitments are funded by previously announced savings. The Making Welfare Work programme we announced last month contributes £52 billion a year in savings by the end of the next Parliament. We will also save £7 billion by eliminating most foreign aid. We will cut net zero programmes, saving £10 billion. We will also shrink the size of the government,

saving £7 billion a year by the end of the next Parliament, in line with Danny Kruger MP’s Storm and Sunshine paper. The remainder of the savings come from immigration-related savings (e.g., from abolishing ILR, deporting foreign national offenders, and increasing the immigration health surcharge) and small changes to other settings. We will also implement a migrant worker levy to offset the costs of reversing Rachel Reeves’ tax on British workers. Personal Allowance Methodology We have costed an increase in the personal allowance to £15,000 using an in-house tax and transfer model. Our policy holds the higher-rate threshold constant at its present £50,270 and does not change the NICs thresholds. Static costs are built from HMRC’s Survey of Personal Incomes, as published in Income Tax liabilities statistics table 2.5 for 2026-27. We then apply a behavioural adjustment that nets a labour supply response, calibrated to the OBR’s published elasticities, against the taxable income response of those whose allowance taper is lengthened. Holding the higher-rate threshold at £50,270 means every taxpayer gains the same £486, whether they pay the basic or the higher rate. Estimates that instead let the threshold rise with the allowance give a larger figure, because higher-rate taxpayers would then gain twice as much; the difference is worth around £3 billion a year.

Endnotes

1. https:/ /ifs.org.uk/publications/new-estimates-impact-undergraduate-degrees-lifetime-earnings 2. https:/ /commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10568/ 3. https:/ /www.gmc-uk.org/about/how-we-work/our-equality-diversity-and-inclusion-programme/our-targets-to-address-areas-of-inequality 4. https:/ /www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/Press-Releases/slight-rise-in-student-applications-overshadowed-by-crisis-in-nursing-education 5. Based on an average sized household, and in line with previous Ofgem price cap estimation methodologies 6. £80 on household energy bills”, add a footnote saying “based on an average household consumption of 3.1kWh of electricity and 9.5kWh of gas 7. Part 4A of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 8. Reform UK analysis using DfE, Student loan forecasts for England 2025-26; Office for Students, Guide to funding 2025-26 and medical maximum fundable limits; DHSC, Education and training tariffs 2025 to 2026; NHS Bursary rates 2025/26

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