Nigel Farage delivered an important speech on Tuesday aimed at broadening Reform UK’s policy agenda as the party continues to rise in the polls and raise hopes of forming a government after the next general election.
The political leader, best known for making Brexit happen and championing strict border controls, criticised the establishment parties for losing sense of “just how important family is” and pledged a collection of pro-natal policies.
Farage promised tax breaks for married couples and said he would scrap the two-child benefit cap, spectacularly outmanoeuvring the Labour Party which long ago gave up all efforts to protect the working family.
Connecting this to Reform’s already well-known theme of migration, Farage said that supporting the family unit and boosting birth rates will help to end the national reliance on foreign labour.
"Lifting the two-child cap is the right thing to do," Nigel Farage says
The proposed measures have been likened to those entering the statute book in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently announced what he described as “the biggest tax reduction programme in Europe,” including an income tax exemption for mothers of two or three children. This was on top of an already announced doubling of income tax benefits for families.
Hungarian state secretary Zsófia Koncz also reiterated on Children’s Day (on Tuesday) that “we are introducing Europe’s largest tax reduction program for families.”
Pro-family policies have long been popular in the UK, too. The problem is that they have been presented by politicians who don’t believe in them in order to pick up votes.
Reform would pay for these and other measures by scrapping unrealistic and unaffordable net zero targets, as well as by ending hotel accommodation for illegal migrants and defunding DEI (‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’) programmes.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
