![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/how-reform-uk-is-targeting-disaffected-conservatives-for-their-votes/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000315547876_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq3RxzVucB_JPv8vSQft0FVoPRxT8BEbbaJbwTMVYvdOM.jpeg&description=He says: "We've got common sense policies. That's why people are joining us. People are leaving other parties in droves."Reform's policy platform is something of a work in progress. Its website offers policies on three key areas: the economy, public sector and institutions. In our interview Tice has some other ideas. On tax, he would lift the income threshold at which people pay 20 per cent income tax from £12,500 to £20,000, taking six million people out of paying tax. His other new idea is to take one million small businesses out of paying any corporation tax by lifting the corporation tax threshold to £100,000. The £50 billion cost of all would be paid for by the "very simple" way cutting wasteful government spending. Tice would order "every council, every quango, every government department" to save £5 in every £100 spent. That would come with a threat: "And if you don't, you're fired. That's what we do in business. And guess what? It works. You save £5 in a hundred for the government [and it is] £50billion." When I ask for examples of wasteful spending to cut, Tice is less clear. "Just the other day I was looking yesterday, one department spent £250,000 on a wellness app. I mean, give us a break." It might take a lot of cuts to apps to get to £50 billion, I suggest. Elsewhere, Tice wants the Home Office to make more proactive efforts to tackle the small boats crisis on the south coast of England and get some of the 5.3 million people on out of work benefits back to work. 'Veterans should be leading as Chief Constables' He also wants a separate Office for Veteran Affairs to help former members of the Armed Forces back into work in leadership positions. "Veterans should be leading as Chief Constables of our police forces, like they used to do 40 or 50 years ago," he says. "Then of a sudden you'd get the police doing a proper job properly implementing real law and order. They wouldn't be tolerating these absurd idiots blocking out roads and junctions and taking ov){kind=link}
For Richard Tice, the party’s leader, there’s a gap opening on the Right of British politics and power appears to be within reach
Richard Tice is sitting on the top floor of a tower block that looms over the River Thames, directly opposite the tower on Millbank that now houses the Office of Boris Johnson. Tice has a flat here. A few hundred yards away is the Palace of Westminster, swathed in the evening November mist.
Power appears to be within touching distance. And for Tice and his party Reform UK, the idea is not so far-fetched, with a yawning gap opening on the Right of British politics as the Conservative lurches leftwards after the disastrous implementation of ‘Trussonomics’.
Reform UK emerged from the ashes of the Brexit Party, which had lost its way after Tice and Nigel Farage, his co-leader, stood down hundreds of candidates to give the Conservatives a clear run at the 2019 general election.
Now it is back in the hunt for votes after Conservative MPs forced out Johnson and then replaced Liz Truss, his successor, with Rishi Sunak. In the fortnight since Truss’s defenestration an astonishing 4,534 people signed up to join Reform UK.