What would Farage’s Britain be like?

NIGEL Farage boasted in September 2025: “I’m the only figure from… Parliament that has consistently stood behind Trump. I have never wavered in my thoughts or my views for one minute, even when it was an unpopular thing to do.”

Mr Farage told a rally of Reform UK supporters that Trump’s election should “serve as an inspiration”.

So what does “standing behind Trump” mean, on:

MONEY?
Trump promised to cut US grocery prices – he hasn’t. But he is slashing taxes for the very wealthiest 1%, while barely helping middle-earners, and making the poor poorer.

SAFETY?
Trump is slashing regulations on corporations. He says climate change is a “hoax”.

DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM?
Trump “summoned the mob” which stormed the US Capitol on January 6th 2021, leading to five deaths and 174 injuries. This was part of a criminal “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the result of the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden, found the official investigation. 

Trump has threatened and defied judges over rulings he doesn’t like, targeted law firms and media outlets challenging him, censored universities’ curriculums by holding their funding ransom, and sent troops into US cities.

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NIGEL Farage said on Sky News in April 2025: “I do not want [the NHS] funded through general taxation. It doesn’t work. It’s not working.” Despite backtracking months later, Farage is on the record with similar comments back to 2012, when he said: “I think we’re going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare.”

He said in 2024: “The funding of the NHS is a total failure. The French do it much better with less funding. There is a lesson there. If you can afford it, you pay; if you can’t, you don’t.”

In reality, expenditure in the French healthcare system is 21% higher per person than in the UK system. The independent Nuffield Trust say there is no magic fix without more investment.

In France, patients generally have to pay out of pocket for appointments and treatments, then claim reimbursement: usually 70% from the state and the rest from mandatory insurance.

NIGEL Farage’s deputy has called for spending cuts equal to £274bn a year – more than five times the Truss government’s unfunded, turmoil-inducing plan.

Multimillionaire Richard Tice called for Government spending to fall from 45% of GDP to just 35%. Cuts on this scale would roughly equal the entire public funding of the NHS (£188.5bn a year), PLUS the Ministry of Defence (£54bn), the Home Office (>£20m), AND the Ministry of Justice (almost £12bn).