Can Reformation be found in Reform UK?
Since June 23rd, 2016, Nigel Farage’s political party, once known as the UKIP Party (now renamed as the Reform UK Party), has made wide-sweeping strokes across the face of the nation and even the international political sphere. It is immediately understandable why Reform is gaining such recognition, considering the party leader’s expert marketing, his appearances on broadcasting news channels such as ‘Great Britain News’, and his spear-headed claims, frustrations and solutions regarding mass migration. However, not all of his public reception/feedback has been purely positive, with left-wing political parties, progressive news channels and even celebrities criticising him for his understandably claimed extremist, far-right views and policies. Most recently, these extreme, “racially motivated” beliefs of Nigel Farage were exposed.
On the 29th October 2025, Nigel Farage (MP for Clacton and leader of the Reform UK Party) proposed a bill that would oversee the UK’s withdrawal from the ECHR. For readers unfamiliar, the ECHR stands for the European Convention on Human Rights, a bill of rights that directly protects the human rights of all citizens of countries that have signed it.
From Nigel Farage's perspective, he stated that the ECHR needed to be withdrawn from, to “stop the boats”. However, many left-leaning and centrist parties and outlets have since disregarded the MP’s undeniably deceitful bill and claims. Given how the European Convention of Human Rights protects a vast amount of human rights, which I, the writer of this article, and you, the reader, benefit from, alongside the entire public of the UK. Considering how the ECHR ensures every person has the right to be free from torture (article 3), slavery (article 4) and a fair trial (article 6). Immediately, any respectful reader would note that an admission to exit the ECHR being passed and acted upon would leave the entirety of the UK population vulnerable to torture, being enslaved and even not having the right to a trial in the first place.
Without question, this would undoubtedly allow for the rise of a far-right, extremist political party such as Reform UK. Despite these aforementioned flaws, supporters or members of Reform UK have since come to the defence of the bill, arguing that it would lower levels of mass illegal immigration. Furthermore, the European Court of Human Rights does have the capacity to override decisions and rulings made by the UK’s Supreme Court, provided they are deemed to violate the Human Rights of the individual who petitioned the claim to the court.
Henceforth, Nigel Farage has and is continuing to argue that we must return our own laws and judicial power to the mainland of the UK. What an abysmal statement! With clarity, this removal from the ECHR isn’t a valiant and rebellious act to circumvent the overbearing powers of the ECHR, as, according to the Good Law Project, this ensures that people have “protection against teachers physically disciplining students.” Rather, it intends to undermine the virtuous efforts of the European Court and its members, to ensure that extremists and anti-diplomatic regimes do not arise and override the fundamental, protective principles of Human Rights, which benefit everyone!
In addition, the ECHR from 2015 to 2024 have only seen 61,000 appeals regarding immigration, with a far smaller amount being approved. With all this being said, there is no doubt that the ECHR has a minimally impactful effect on immigration and benefits the nation by acting as a vanguard to human rights, for all humans in the UK!
