Overview

• A Survation poll for Friderichs Advisory Partners showed widespread public alarm over knife crime, theft and violence and elevated Nigel Farage as the most trusted law-and-order leader, spurring Reform UK’s policy launch
• The zero tolerance package mandates police to investigate every offence, expands saturation stop-and-search in high-crime areas and funds recruitment of 30,000 additional officers
• Reform’s plan calls for 12,400 new prison places on Ministry of Defence land, five rapid-build “Nightingale” jails, overseas detention capacity and deportation of more than 10,000 foreign offenders
• Funding for the five-year strategy is projected at £17.4 billion, to be offset by cancelling HS2 and net zero commitments—a proposal critics argue lacks credible cost breakdowns
• Labour and Conservative figures have publicly labeled the blueprint financially unsubstantiated and operationally unrealistic as Parliament prepares for summer recess