General Election 2024: Do Reform's figures add up?

Sky's Ed Conway analyses whether Reform's manifesto spending plans add up after they set out the party's pledges in South Wales ahead of the general election on 4 July.

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[richlc]

Sky News mathematician 😂 persuaded me to Vote Reform 👍

[RealtalkManc]

The moral of this is simple-

Don’t ask the owner of Burger King what he thinks of the new McDonald’s burger.

[jimmymcguire]

Vote Reform people, a small step in the right direction

[chaphidoesstuff]

Reform UK is the best party as of right now

[rosscobossco]

I previously worked as a civil servant, and encountered many people working £30k+ jobs that weren't even worth £15k, and badly, I might add. Reform could easily achive their budget goals by cutting the vastly over inflated civil service down to size

[pjwlxpq]

One question I have is that how much actual money can be saved by cutting all those training and positions related to DEI and ESG...

[benjaminbannister]

Don’t care what the figures say reform still get my vote because it doesn’t matter what the other say they never do it and still end up spending billions and billions let’s run through their figures and labours last time they were in power …..time for change

[ionlyfearphobophobia]

It's not rocket science. Everyone who works in these sectors can point out all the wasteful parts of their departments which are a dead weight loss. 1 in 10 employees could be sacked, and all that would happen is productivity would be improved. That's how much dead weight has been allowed to work in these sectors.

[cwb]

One major flaw in Sky's logic is in the exemptions, for example yes Nigel wants to increase Defense spending, but that doesn't mean he isn't willing to cut the waste out of it. There is no part of the 1 trillion that would be exempt from the 5 percent cut in wasteful spending. It's wasteful spending, it doesn't matter what sector it's in, it doesn't belong and can be cut. And the Banking part, yes some other places might be doing it differently, giving away more money to the Big Banks and clawing back less, but that doesn't mean that Nigel will do it the same way, he's going to do it a better way, as he clearly outlined, as he's already demonstrated he isn't afraid to take on the big banks, and when he does he wins. A vote for Reform is a vote for the working man and not the big banks!

[Howling-Mad-Murdock]

Short answer - no. Every government that says they’ll cut taxes says they’ll do it by cutting spending and waste. Then they get into power and realises they can’t do it.

[flyingdutchman]

'Cutting Wasteful Spending' means less money going into the NHS but Reform leaders are not affected because of private medical insurance or in at least one case free medical treatment in the EU.

[SuzanneJones-qyzh]

At least they are spending the money on the people and the good of the people 😊

[neonshaker]

They can promise any old nonsense because they'll never have to implement them.

[alexfielding]

5% cut across Government spending - laughable

[DingStiing]

Thankfully it doesn’t matter what Reform’s “Contract with the People” is because most people aren’t daft enough to be conned into voting for them.

[flanaj]

If the news ever tell me to NOT vote for someone, I'm more inclined to vote for them.

[CycleInLondon]

The short answer is no. The long answer is no

[AZhangETH]

Luckily for Nigel Reform voters can’t do maths

[Lioris]

It's mental that Sky aren't just running a 5 minute laugh track.

Torries & Labour are talking about a £12 billion saving & that's hard, these jokers say £50 billion & it's not being laughed out the studio.

[Urko]

The breakdown of the labour manifesto must be why they are dropping in the polls over the past 2 weeks.