Reform UK are presenting themselves as an insurgent political party, yet their adoption of former Conservatives shows they are nothing more than the 'Tories in disguise'.
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Closer EU ties shield UK from Trump’s game show antics
US President Donald Trump's tariffs were "ill-conceived, game show-style antics" which have only created "more economic chaos", campaigners have said on the one-year anniversary of his so-called 'Liberation Day'.Fresh UK-EU summit welcome but vital growth only via deeper alignment
Today, Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed that a new summit is due to be announced shortly. The summit will be the second following last year's inaugural meeting between the UK and the EU on 19 May 2025.‘Erratic, unreliable’ USA could pose ‘threat to Europe’, experts warn
The United States has become “erratic” and "unreliable", and could even “be a threat to Europe”, experts including a former advisor to the then-Foreign Secretary have warned.Highlighting democratic challenges welcome but much more to do
Campaigners have welcomed Sir Philip Rycroft’s review of foreign financial interference but stressed there is "significantly more to do" on understanding and responding to democratic challenges.
The UK-EU Youth Experience Scheme Report
This report, from the cross-party, cross-industry UK Trade and Business Commission (UKTBC) delivers 17 substantive recommendations for the UK Government, and our EU partners on how we can make a youth experience scheme a reality.Decoding Populism: Voters considering Reform UK want wealth taxes
As speculation over the Budget continues, Best for Britain has tested where the public, and key segments of Reform UK's base, think the Chancellor should raise taxes. The latest findings...The UK’s trading partners: Public attitudes towards the UK’s main trading partners, including the EU and US
This report presents the third set of results and key findings of a comprehensive public opinion survey of 4,368 adults carried out by YouGov on behalf of Best for Britain between 5th - 10th September 2025. This report builds on previous Best for Britain research which focused on public attitudes towards Brexit, ahead of the Budget of November 2025, and public views on the biggest issues facing the UK, and local communities.The UK's biggest challenges: Public attitudes towards the most important issues facing the UK and local communities
Best for Britain's latest polling report suggests that the cost of living is the top priority for people both nationally and locally. Conversely, the salience of immigration and asylum drops from the second most prominent issue in aggregate, to the seventh, when the biggest issues facing the UK are reframed to individuals and local communities.
An important update about Best for Britain’s future work
In light of the recent news coverage on the UK-EU negotiations, including Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK Government is pursuing “closer UK-EU ties”, and his call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday, I thought I should provide an update from Best for Britain.The importance of voting against what you don’t want; a lesson from France
What do we consider when we head to the polls? In an ideal world we vote for the candidate we want; in the imperfect world in which we find ourselves, we often vote against the party we don't.What is the K-shaped economy?
More recently, the K-shaped economy has been used to visualise the rising inequality within Western societies between rich and poor. But there are many different kinds of K-shaped economies. Looking at the changes to British exports to the EU after Brexit might help us understand how Brexit has changed our economy and affected regional inequality…What happened in the Portuguese Presidential election?
“I think the message from the Portuguese people was clear. We lead the right in Portugal, we lead the right-wing space in Portugal, and we will soon govern this country.” André Ventura, Leader of Chega & Presidential Candidate
Cost of Brexit
The Cost of Brexit
Nearly ten years since the referendum, and six years since we officially left the EU, we know that Brexit has been deeply damaging for the UK. But do we know just how much Brexit has cost us? With so many figures floating about, it can be hard to know where to look and what to trust. So to make t...
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Report: Quantifying the opportunities for economic growth
Best for Britain asked Frontier Economics to independently model the economic effects of alignment rules and standards for goods and services between the UK and the EU within the UK Government’s negotiating red lines of ‘no return to the single market, customs union or freedom of movement’. The modelling also considered the United States potentially levying tariffs on the UK and other trade partners.
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