‘Young people feel very smothered’: Reform’s plan to grab youth vote ...Middle East

Reform’s chairman says the major parties are mistaken if they think Nigel Farage’s political disruptors are just a “supernova” that will burn bright for a short time, predicting the party will soon start to capture young voters disillusioned with the establishment.

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.

“No party commands a bigger organic reach on social media than Reform … Nigel’s message is resonating with young people.,” Yusuf said.

“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.”

The insurgent right-wing party won hundreds of councillors, two mayoral races and a Commons by-election following elections this week, leading Farage to even declare that he is set to become Britain’s next prime minister.

Yusuf told The Times that any Reform government would be even more transformational in its first 100 days than Margaret Thatcher’s government was.

Labour MPs have hit out at Sir Keir Starmer, blaming his policy choices, such as cutting winter fuel payments, for the party’s poor performance at the election.

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.

“You’re going to hear from us over the next couple of years more and more of a policy platform for young people, for Gen Z and for millennials,” Yusuf told The Times.

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.

“Young people in this country (are) basically being taught quite deliberately that they should hate their country; they should be deeply ashamed of their country’s history; that the United Kingdom had a brutal empire,” he said.

“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.

“These things are not taught and embedded into British people in the way that they are in many other countries.

“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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