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WHAT WE STAND FOR

Scottish Policies

Reform UK stands for a confident, sovereign, prosperous Britain. A country that rewards effort, enforces the law, defends its people, and believes in its future.

Scottish Reform Policies

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Under Reform UK, the NHS in Scotland will remain free at the point of need and will be fully funded by general taxation.

Reform UK says the NHS in Scotland will stay free at the point of need and funded by taxation, but needs major reform. Despite £20 billion of annual spending and rising budgets, outcomes are worsening, patients struggle to see GPs, hospitals are overcrowded, and delayed discharges are blocking the whole system. Reform UK would tackle bureaucracy, improve staff retention, fix delayed discharge, and create new care pathways. High tax rates on NHS staff would also be reduced so experienced doctors and nurses keep more of what they earn and are less likely to cut their hours.

Reform would set up an independent Scottish Healthcare Reform Commission to review workforce planning, social care integration, prevention, community services, and new technology. On social care, Reform UK says carers should not lose support through sharp cliff edges when earnings rise, and councils should have greater control with secure long term funding. On welfare, it would tighten assessments, ensure work pays more than benefits, and redirect savings into back to work and apprenticeship programmes.

 

Reform UK will cut and simplify taxes to reward work, enterprise, and ambition. We will scrap Scotland’s six income tax bands, mirror the rest of the UK’s three bands at 1p lower, and aim within five years to keep Scottish rates 3p below rUK. We will also remove cliff edges that punish people for earning more, so that work always pays and people keep at least half of every extra pound earned where devolved powers allow.

Reform UK will also reform property and business taxation to support growth. We will phase out LBTT, reform business rates, reverse the 2026 rates revaluation, and cancel the planned council tax increase. Over time, LBTT and business rates will be replaced with a single fairer Annual Property Tax, making it easier to move home, invest, and grow a business.

Reform UK will deliver real devolution within Scotland by giving councils greater control over revenue and spending. Local authorities will move towards raising more of their own revenue, keeping their own surpluses, and gaining a more secure long term funding base. We will also review unfunded obligations imposed by Holyrood, so councils can focus again on essential local services and respond directly to the needs of residents.

Reform UK will use Scotland’s natural energy strengths to deliver secure, affordable, and reliable power. We will back North Sea oil and gas, support onshore and offshore energy production, and end the mismanagement that has left Britain with far higher energy costs than major competitors while jobs and industry have been driven overseas.

To halt Scotland’s de industrialisation, Reform UK will scrap SNP Net Zero targets, subsidies, and quangos, end the ban on new nuclear facilities in Scotland, and prepare to restore North Sea gas as a primary part of our energy system. We will also revise planning rules to fast track energy infrastructure, including hydro, geothermal, coal mining, and grid improvements, while protecting Scotland’s natural beauty and respecting local communities.

Reform UK will also use planning reform to support new factories and industrial expansion on existing sites, helping bring high paying manufacturing jobs back to Scotland. We will create a Scottish Energy Workforce Plan linked to colleges and apprenticeships, so young Scots can train for skilled careers, and require Energy Price Impact Statements so the public can see clearly how policy decisions affect their bills.

Reform UK will put local people first in housing. We will restore the local connection requirement for social housing in Scotland, end Glasgow’s status as a dispersal city, and ensure scarce affordable homes are prioritised for local families and communities rather than those with no connection to the area.

We will help rebuild vibrant communities by backing affordable housing on brownfield town centre sites, giving councils stronger powers over vacant and neglected properties, and developing a long term funding model to increase the supply of council owned social housing. We will also support small local builders, expand Rent to Buy for young people and working families, and give local residents more say over how their communities are designed.

Reform UK will restore confidence in the private rented sector by repealing SNP regulations for new tenancies, while leaving existing agreements unchanged. This will increase supply, improve affordability, and help turn towns and cities back into stable communities rather than places dominated by short term lets and transient accommodation.

Reform UK will back Scotland’s police with better pay, proper support, and a clear focus on real crime. We will end political distractions, review police pay, repeal the Hate Crime and Public Order Act, and cut unnecessary workload so officers can concentrate on the offences that matter most to the public.

We will also strengthen justice and public safety by abolishing the Scottish Sentencing Council, introducing tougher sentences for repeat offenders, expanding prison capacity, ending early release, reducing court backlogs, and ensuring the independence of the grooming gangs inquiry in Scotland.

Reform UK will deliver a New Deal for Scotland to reset our country after 25 years of SNP failure. Our mission is to reform the economy, revitalise communities, and restore pride so Scotland can flourish again over the next decade.

We will turbo charge economic growth by cutting taxes for hard working Scots, reducing energy costs, and making Scotland competitive again. We will align education and training with our leading business sectors, equip young people for skilled jobs, and help adults back into work so that everyone who can contribute has the chance to do so.

We will rebuild strong and cohesive communities by putting local people first in public services and restoring a proper sense of local connection. Controlled immigration, shared values, and fair rules will help ensure that housing, healthcare, education, and justice work first for the people who live here and contribute here.

We will restore Scotland’s pride by unlocking the talent, creativity, and resources of our nation. Reform UK will back modern solutions, reward ambition, and create opportunity, prosperity, and civic confidence for Scots of every background. Let Scotland flourish.

WHAT WE STAND FOR

UK Wide Policies

Reform UK stands for a confident, sovereign, prosperous Britain. A country that rewards effort, enforces the law, defends its people, and believes in its future.

Illegal immigration is out of control because politicians choose not to enforce the law, and let foreign courts rob British citizens of a border.

A Reform government will stop the boats by immediately leaving the ECHR, restoring full control of our borders, intercepting and detaining all illegal arrivals, and deporting them.

There will be no loopholes, no delays, and no endless appeals.

We will also end Britain being treated as a global welfare system. No more free housing. No more benefits. No more taxpayer-funded incentives for illegal migration. An end to NGOs facilitating illegal migration. Detention and deportation will be the only outcome.

Britain is a welcoming country. But it must be a country with borders, laws, and consequences.

Border control is national security.

A Reform government will establish a fully integrated border command, including a UK Deportation Command, with the legal authority, manpower, and technology to stop illegal entry by land, sea, and air.

We will withdraw from or disapply every international treaty that prevents this country from being able to secure its borders.

We will restore deterrence, enforce the law, and ensure that anyone who enters Britain illegally is removed swiftly and permanently.

A nation that fails to control its borders is not a nation.

We have announced a clear and uncompromising plan to remove all illegal migrants from the UK. Operation Restoring Justice.

Reform UK will implement a five-year emergency programme to identify, detain, and deport illegal migrants in the UK. We will leave the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act and pass the Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill to ensure that anyone who enters the country illegally will be ineligible for asylum. We will establish a UK Deportation Command and use all the available levers of the state to identify illegal migrants and deport them, including rapidly building Secure Immigration Removal Centres with capacity for up to 24,000. The Foreign Office will secure return agreements with other countries as a matter of priority and up to five deportation flights per day will be chartered by the Home Office (with an RAF Voyager on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness).

Over 10 years, this programme will lead to a net saving of £42 billion for the taxpayer (£7 billion during the first Parliament).

The era of cheap, low-skilled foreign labour is over. Reform UK will end the scam of mass immigration and finally put British citizens first.

The Conservative Party's failed immigration policies allowed 3.8 million people (96% non-EU) into the country on long-term visas during the Boriswave (2021-2024). About half of these migrants will never work. Between 2026-2030 800,000 of these migrants are expected to receive Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), giving them access to benefits, ultimately costing the UK taxpayer a minimum of £234 billion.

Reform will abolish ILR and rescind existing awards. Reform will introduce a 5 year renewable visa for migrants with higher salary thresholds, mandatory fluency in English, and stricter good character requirements. There will be no recourse to benefits for foreign nationals. Shortage visas will be issued in limited and capped numbers only when there are clear and acute shortages in national-critical roles (with the visa sponsor also required to train up a British worker).

A Reform government will ensure that no foreign court, treaty, or institution overrides the will of the British people or the authority of Parliament.

Laws affecting Britain will be made in Britain. Borders will be controlled in Britain. National interests will be decided by the British people alone.

Sovereignty is not an abstract principle. It is the foundation of democracy, accountability, and self-government.

The first duty of the state is to protect its citizens.

Reform UK will restore visible policing, much tougher sentencing for serious and repeat offenders - including mandatory minimums, and an uncompromising approach to crime and antisocial behaviour.

We will deploy stop and search to get deadly weapons off our streets, and keep people safe.

We will rapidly build prison capacity to ensure no violent criminals are released early due to overcrowding, and that judges hand criminals the sentences they deserve.

Victims will come first, not criminals. The law will protect those who obey it, and punish those who break it.

Safe streets are the bedrock of a civilised society.

Work should always be rewarded.

We will cut taxes on workers, reduce the burden on families, and ensure that people are always better off in work than on benefits.

The welfare system will support only those British citizens who cannot get by without government help, and it will no longer trap people in dependency or penalise effort.

If you work hard and play by the rules, Britain should work for you.

British households and businesses are being crushed by among the highest energy costs in the world - driven by bad ideological policy.

Reform UK will prioritise energy security, expand domestic energy production, and scrap policies that drive bills higher while making Britain more dependent on foreign energy.

Lower energy costs mean lower prices, higher wages, and a stronger economy.

Britain's farmers are the lifeblood of our country and backbone of our food security, but they have been pushed to breaking point by Whitehall diktats. Pursuit of net zero at any cost has led to productive farmland being littered with solar panels and wind farms.

Reform UK will rip up paperwork burdens, restore common sense, and end the punitive taxation of family farms. We will let farmers farm again and ensure that they're paid fair prices for their produce.

Britain was once the workshop of the world. It can be again.

We will support domestic manufacturing with much cheaper energy, simpler regulation and procurement policies that favour British producers.

We will ensure our young people are trained in skills that manufacturers need, providing them with fulfilling and well paid jobs.

A strong manufacturing base means skilled jobs, resilient supply chains, and national strength.

Entrepreneurs create jobs, growth, and opportunity.

There are no well paid, fulfilling jobs without thriving businesses.

Government should support them, not suffocate them.

Reform UK will cut red tape, cut business taxes, simplify planning, and create a stable, pro-enterprise environment.

We will make Britain the best place in the world to build and run a successful business.

Our history, culture, and traditions are a source of pride and unity.

Reform UK will defend free speech, uphold British traditions, ban DEI quotas, and reject the politics of guilt.

We will ensure British children are not indoctrinated in schools, that they learn of Britain's great and proud history.

Religious freedom is a core feature of our culture, but our culture is built upon Christian values. Those will be protected and celebrated.

We believe in peace through strength.

We will rebuild Britain's armed forces, invest in capability and readiness, end woke, and restore morale across the military and intelligence services.

We will ensure our armed forces are ready to deal with the ever-present threats posed by Russia and China.

Britain must once again be respected by allies and feared by adversaries.

Family is the foundation of society.

We will reduce the financial pressures that stop working people starting families, support parents, and remove policies that make having children unaffordable.

Britain's future depends on supporting the next generation.

British workers have been undercut for too long.

We will end the importation of cheap foreign labour, supporting jobs and wages for British workers. Our industrial strategy will also ensure training and apprenticeships create opportunities for British workers, especially young people.

British businesses should not be disadvantaged in their own country.

We will prioritise British firms in procurement, remove unnecessary regulation, and create a level playing field.

When British businesses succeed, Britain succeeds.

Britain has the ability to lead the next wave of global innovation, but instead of embracing new technologies the political class are regulating them out of existence, leaving Britain falling behind.

Reform UK will make Britain a world leader in emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and digital assets. We will create a pro-innovation regulatory environment that encourages experimentation, rewards investment, and attracts the world's best talent.

Under Reform, technology will serve the British people, raise productivity, and create high-paid jobs. We enable progress, not hold it back.

The Tories spent £230 billion on foreign aid over their 14 years, in real terms, while letting British public services decay to the brink of collapse.

We will cap overseas aid at £1bn, prioritising British strategic interests, ringfencing bilateral aid to Ukraine, and keeping our seat at the UN and IMF. This will save over £30bn over a Parliament, which will be redirected to serve British people.

We will prioritise our own citizens, securing our borders, rebuilding public services, and strengthening national defence.

Charity begins at home. The first duty of any government is to its own people.

Britain is over-governed, over-regulated, and under-managed.

Reform UK will slim down the civil service, eliminate waste, and refocus the state on delivery rather than process. We will end roles that exist only to produce paperwork, manage decline, or enforce ideological agendas.

Civil servants who perform well will be rewarded. Those who fail will be removed. Accountability, productivity, and value for money will be restored.

A leaner state will deliver better outcomes for the public and free Britain to grow again.