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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during an appearance on LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast show, at the Global Studios in London. July 3, 2025
A GOVERNMENT run as if it was a business is Reform UK’s latest offer, leader Nigel Farage pledged today.
He announced that a Reform government — not an impossibility on latest opinion polling evidence — would include figures from outside Parliament.
Mr Farage claimed that “very well-known people” are among those considering serving in his cabinet.
“I do think that you’ve got to think a little bit more about running the public finances as if you’re running a business,” he added.
The Reform leader dismissed the requirement for ministers to “all be politicians in the House of Commons.”
In fact, all governments have unelected ministers serving in the House of Lords, and Gordon Brown pioneered bringing in business people to run departments when premier.
Mr Farage’s position is unsurprising, given that he has only five MPs at present, and a business leaders’ regime is probably closer to his real intentions than the demagogic interventionist promises he has been making to working-class communities recently.
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