Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy
Carbon Brief provides a fact-check of 45 claims made by the UK's Reform Party regarding climate change and net-zero policies. The report argues that the party's leadership consistently promotes scientifically inaccurate views on global warming.
Why it matters
It highlights the tension between populist political rhetoric and established climate science in the UK political landscape.
Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Climate science Net-zero target Energy costs Oil and gas Impacts and adaptation Clean energy Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing anti-net-zero policies, alongside vehement opposition to immigration.
The hard-right populist party is currently mired in a funding controversy and only has a handful of MPs, yet, until recently, it had been leading in national polls for more than a year.
As seen with many similar parties across Europe and beyond, a rejection of climate science is central to Reform’s ideological outlook.
Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, is a vocal critic of what he calls “ net stupid zero ” and has incorrectly blamed “the sun or volcanoes” for human-caused global warming.
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