The Latest Breaking News from Robert Jenrick

Business owners would get £30 for HMRC phone delays, Jenrick announces

The Reform UK Treasury spokesman said the plans were aimed at speeding up the tax office’s services for small businesses.

Evening Standard · Aug 26

Reform UK pledges to scrap GDPR for ‘light-touch’ laws

The party has pledged to axe the General Data Protection Regulation and expand a venture capital scheme offering tax relief to investors.

Evening Standard · Aug 25

Badenoch plotted to remove Sunak as PM months before election, book claims

Anthony Seldon’s book alleges Badenoch asked fellow Tory ministers ‘if anyone was interested in changing the captain’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25

Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister

Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20

Reform civil war intensifies as Farage ally vows to challenge suspension and test if party can ‘tolerate free speech’

Tim Montgomerie says he will make his suspension a ‘test case’ for the party

The Independent UK · Aug 19

Cutting health benefits for young people could push thousands into poverty, charities warn

Dozens of charities have urged ministers to focus on support and opportunity instead of ‘the failed punitive approaches of the past’

The Independent UK · Aug 18

Things get even more tricky for Dicky Tice, the Reform deputy with lots of cash but zero self-awareness

Telling the country to enjoy the heat while it burns, you have to wonder if Tice has lost all sense of reality

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18

‘We’re not scroungers – we need it’: Furious PIP claimants hit back at Reform’s plan to axe benefits

Over half of the UK’s health benefit claimants would be stripped of their payments under the plans announced by Reform UK

The Independent UK · Aug 17

Huge number of children would fall into poverty under Reform’s benefits plans, say campaigners

Party wants to cut £50bn from UK welfare bill but charity says proposals would cause ‘horrific levels of destitution’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17

The welfare state needs reform – but not Reform

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Robert Jenrick’s suggestion that foreign nationals pay into the tax system but not be entitled to benefits is not the only self-defeating weakness in the party’s proposals

The Independent UK · Aug 17