Reform UK have seemingly U-turned on their support for backing the US’s military action in an embarrassing showing for the party.
Ever since the US and Israel started their war with Iran, Reform figures have been the most vocal in urging the UK government to offer unwavering support to Donald Trump.
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However, as the days have gone on, this has increasingly shown itself to be a deeply unpopular stance with the British public, with the majority of Brits wanting very little to do with Trump’s illegal war.
Reform’s flip-flopping first started to show itself over the weekend.
After Farage has said the UK “should do all we can” to help the Americans, Richard Tice suggested that Reform would instruct the RAF to join the US and Israel to bomb Iran if necessary.
Within hours though, Reform MP Robert Jenrick was giving a very different view during an appearance on Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday programme.
He said: “If you’re asking me the question, do I think that it is in the interests of the British people, and at the end of the day that is what matters to Reform, for us to be deploying British airmen in bombing raids over Iran right now, when our allies have not asked us to do that, then, no, I don’t think that’s necessary.”
Now, as the US and Israel’s war has the predicted impact on oil prices, that look set to drive up the cost of living for millions of Brits over the coming months, Reform appears to have fully switched its stance.
In an article for the Telegraph, Jenrick reiterated his opposition to the UK joining the war in Iran, and attempted to frame this as having been Reform’s stance all along.
He wrote on X: “The British people have had enough of them. It’s time to be realists and put Britain first.
“That’s why Nigel Farage immediately ruled out suggestions that the UK might deploy boots on the ground. Nor do we see why British aircraft should become involved in offensive action.”
But the damage has already been done for Reform and their opposition to the war now stinks of opportunism.
As one person put it in a post on social media, it was a “pathetic spectacle from pathetic MPs.”
Meanwhile, Green leader Zack Polanski said Reform were “trying to pull the wool over our eyes.”
Meanwhile, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire clearly outlined Reform’s shifting stance on the war in Iran.
And political commentator Don McGowan labelled the whole debacle a “screeching U-turn,” asking: “I wonder which poll they’ve seen to prompt this flippety flop?”