Unions rebuff Farage and say Reform ‘cosplaying’ as workers’ champions

Nigel Farage has said union leaders are ‘spending their members’ money on policies that their members do not support’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Major trade unions and the TUC have rebuffed Nigel Farage’s call for unions to affiliate to Reform UK, saying the party is “cosplaying” as workers’ champions and has opposed new employment rights.

Farage issued a call on Tuesday for unions to attend Reform’s conference and to affiliate to the party, and he suggested one union may be on the brink of doing so.