Overview
- Danny Kruger said a Reform government would arrive with draft legislation, a new ministerial code and civil service code, orders in council and key appointments ready to implement on day one.
- Reform plans to strip the ministerial code of its requirement to take international law into account and to rewrite the civil service code to ban non‑party political activism, targeting DEI policies.
- Kruger pledged to reduce the central civil service headcount to below pre‑Brexit levels, oppose work-from-home practices and give ministers greater hire-and-fire control over senior officials.
- The party named government offices it would exit—such as 102 Petty France (MoJ), Great Smith Street (DfE), Marsham Street, Horseferry Road and Victoria Street—citing up to £100m in annual savings, though ministers note several are already closing under existing plans.
- The launch drew sharp criticism after Kruger’s “LGBT‑supporting” remark about rival parties, as unions and opposition figures challenged the plans’ practicality; Reform also confirmed five expulsions at its Kent council group while YouGov figures reported by The Independent showed the party on 27%.