Nigel Farage is set to promise that a Reform UK government would stop illegal migrant small boat crossings in the English Channel within 100 days of taking office. The pledge forms part of a package of measures the party leader will outline as Reform members gather in Birmingham for their annual conference this weekend.
Seven-day parliamentary sessions planned
With speculation mounting that Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham could call a snap election, and polls still placing Reform ahead of most traditional parties, Mr Farage is expected to declare he will force Parliament to sit for seven-day sessions to push through a wave of legislation. He will describe this as necessary to fix the "national emergency" facing Britain.
According to the Mail, Mr Farage will do "anything and everything to make the first 100 days work", adding: "If the Lords, judiciary or civil service get in our way, they will discover just how determined we are."
Energy bills and cost-cutting pledges
The party also plans a series of cost-cutting measures, claiming it can reduce household energy bills by £250 a year by scrapping Net Zero levies and green policies. Deputy leader Richard Tice is expected to promise to cut environmental levies from energy bills in his own address to the conference on Friday.
Proposed measures include cutting taxes on gas generators, permanently removing VAT from energy bills, and scrapping policies such as the renewables obligation, feed-in tariffs and the warm homes discount.
A party spokesman told the Mail: "Within days of winning the election we will introduce dozens of Bills and force Parliament to sit all through the summer for seven days a week to pass them."
Conference addresses and delivery threats
Mr Farage, 62, will give the first of his two conference speeches on Friday afternoon, in which he will promise to declare a "national emergency" on his first day in government. He is expected to say: "Britain is in serious trouble. We don't have time to wait around to fix it."
The two-day conference is also expected to feature pledges from other senior Reform figures, as well as an address from Jordan Bardella, leader of the French National Rally. Mr Farage is expected to announce that any frontbenchers who fail to deliver on their pledges "will be sacked".
