Overview

• Reform UK has formally called for the full nationalisation of Scunthorpe steelworks and British Steel, positioning itself as the most economically interventionist party in Britain.
• The party is polling ahead nationally and in key Labour strongholds across the North and Midlands, reflecting growing support in traditional Labour constituencies.
• Nigel Farage has intensified campaigning in former Labour areas like County Durham, engaging directly with disaffected working-class voters in cafés and community spaces.
• Reform UK advocates reopening coal mines and expanding North Sea oil and gas extraction, challenging Labour’s net-zero policies with a fossil-fuel-driven reindustrialisation agenda.
• The party has distributed thousands of Freedom of Information-based leaflets exposing alleged council waste and spending on diversity programmes to bolster its grassroots transparency campaign.