Speaking to The Times, Zia Yusuf says that Farage has a huge reach on social media and that young people are starting to turn away from Labour and the Conservatives.
Chairman of Reform UK Zia Yusuf during the counting of ballots for the Runcorn & Helsby by-election. (Photo: Oli Scarff / AFP)
“I think that a lot of young people we speak to feel very smothered by a finger-wagging sort of teaching class. They feel very restricted, they feel a huge lack of opportunity.”
Yusuf told The Times that any Reform government would be even more transformational in its first 100 days than Margaret Thatcher’s government was.
Yusuf says his party wants to lean in to that discontent, adding that Reform could support the government’s plan to lower the voting age to 16.
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage celebrating on stage while addressing supporters after Reform UK took control of Durham County Council (Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
One aspect of Reform’s policy platform directed at young voters is an overhaul of the school curriculum to correct what Yusuf said was an “industrial-scale demoralisation” of British students.
“Look, of course, you know, the British Empire was not perfect, but I actually think overall the British Empire did much more good for the world than it did bad.
“Go to China, go to Russia, go to the United States of America … ultimately what we’ve got to do is give young people a sense of belonging again,” he said.
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