"...putting ministers properly in charge of government"
Express Newspaper: 28th October 2025: The Express reports on a Reform UK press conference outlining the party's plans to prepare for government.
"...Kruger says "We will restore the basis of our democracy, putting ministers properly in charge of the government".
He sets out four key points:
1. We will be ready - When Farage walks into No10 after the next election Kruger says he doesn't want the Cabinet Secretary to welcome him in like the next 'short term tenant'.
"I want Nigel and his team to sit the civil servants down and tell them the plan."
The plan will be a lot bigger and more structural than just decorative reforms. There will be new legislation drafted and ready to go; a new ministerial code; and a new civil service code drafter. People lined up for key appointments. All starting on day one.
2. We will grip the civil service itself
Kruger says Reform will not accept that ministers have to take advice from, and trust the execution of decisions to, officials who answer to different bosses and cannot be sacked.
Reform will bring more expertise and advice from outside Whitehall.
Civil servants will be answerable to politicians for their jobs.
Reform will reverse the rise in the civil service headcount. Kruger puts the civil service "on notice"
The civil service will also lose £100m a year-worth of buildings, with leases not renewed by a Reform government
3. The wider system outside Whitehall must understand and respect the mandate of a Reform government
Reform respects institutions, like the Lords, courts, police and civil service, provided they respect the democratic mandate of the government.
The courts must be politically neutral.
4. The institution we respect the most is parliament. International law, the civil service, the quangocracy and trade unions are not there to second guess the government, but parliament is.
Brexit and elections were to establish and empower our parliament. Reform UK will restore parliamentary government
This means restoring parliament as the proper legislative body of the UK. Reform will reform parliament to increase scrutiny of the government’s bills..."
PopCon says "Good to hear such positive noises from Reform UK recognising the need to tackle Tony Blair's constitutional revolution foisted upon Britain from 1997.