Reform UK LIVE: Zia Yusuf and Richard Tice set to make huge announcement at 11am
Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf will host Reform’s latest press conference from 11am where the pair is set to focus on the new councils it controls.
The Party's deputy leader's plan to “slash council tax bills” by overhauling council-controlled pension funds will also take centre stage.
On 1 May 2025, local elections were held in 23 of England’s councils. Reform UK won the largest number of seats with 677, amounting to 41% of all seats up for election.
It is understood that Reform leader Nigel Farage will be watching from the front row rather than being involved this time.
Immigration could be another issue that features at the event after Reform engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party’s plans to deport all asylum seekers who arrive in small boats.
The church’s most senior bishop called the proposal “isolationist, short-term [and] kneejerk”. But Tice hit back against the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on Sunday, accusing him of interfering in domestic politics.
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Reform UK’s deputy leader on Sunday rejected criticism from the Church of England’s current most senior bishop over the party’s plans to address the small boats crisis.
Asked on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips for his response to the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell who said plans to lock up and deport arrivals in the UK straight away were “isolationist, short-term knee-jerk”, Richard Tice said: “All of it’s wrong because our policy on asylum seekers and removing those who are here illegally is to look after the people that the British Government is supposed to look after, which is the British people, and to make them more prosperous, to improve the world of public services for British citizens, and you’ve now got a Government that basically admitted the opposite is true.
“They’re more interested in protecting the rights of people who’ve come here illegally – therefore they are criminals – than looking after the rights of British citizens.”
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