Reform UK claims to have saved over £100m in its first 100 days running 10 English local authorities by cutting green initiatives and stopping planned spending.
The party said it had saved £25m in Durham by scrapping electric vehicle upgrades, halting a heat pump installation, and reducing solar investment. It also said they had saved £32m in Kent by cancelling energy-efficiency upgrades, and £14m by abandoning a planned office move.
Opponents argue the party’s cost-cutting measures will cost more in the long run.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told the Times they were ‘standing up for the priorities of local people, not the whims of bureaucrats or the entrenched elite.’
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However, writing in Byline Times, Cllr Mark Hood, acting leader of Kent County Council’s Green group, said: ‘One hundred days in, and Reform UK has provided few ideas about where they are going to find £100m of cuts required to balance the books— instead we just get more chaos and clickbait.’
To learn more about Reform UK, check out: Reform UK: What Britain’s fastest rising party stands for and Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ witch-hunts will achieve little.
