Overview
- Nigel Farage unveiled Westminster councillor and former CPS prosecutor Laila Cunningham as Reform’s London campaign lead and its 2028 mayoral candidate.
- Cunningham pledged an all-out crackdown on crime, promising new priorities for the Met on knife crime, drugs, robbery, shoplifting and rape, and said she would rewrite the police and crime plan.
- She vowed to scrap the Ultra Low Emission Zone and end what she calls a war on motorists, left the congestion charge under review, and floated automating parts of the Tube to curb strikes.
- Framing May 7 local elections as a referendum on Sadiq Khan, Reform said it will run in all 32 London boroughs with targeted efforts in areas including Bromley, Bexley, Havering and Barking & Dagenham.
- City Hall and critics rejected Reform’s depiction of a crime surge, citing official data showing homicides at record lows and air pollution reduced by 27 percent under Khan.