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Reform UK’s so-called Shadow Home Secretary proudly announced their tough new policy on illegal working, but it’s already the law – 18 massive facepalms

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 7th, 2026

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Reform UK is pulling out all the stops at the moment, with big-ticket policy announcements that seem to have come from the Bumper Book of Half-Arsed Restore Britain Pledges.

Just days after being criticised by the French and by former Royal Navy leaders for announcing that a Reform Government would deploy the Navy to return small boats to Calais, Zia Yusuf made a speech to reveal how they’d tackle illegal working.

The ‘Shadow Home Secretary’, who isn’t an elected MP and doesn’t belong to the Opposition party, wasn’t the only Reform bigwig pushing the policy, of course. All the usual suspects chirped up.

Deliveroo wasn’t thrilled at having their name dragged into it. They told the BBC –

“We run Right to Work checks on all riders, conduct multiple daily identity checks and use cutting-edge fraud-detection technology, and we’d encourage other industries affected by illegal working to do the same.”

That, however, wasn’t the only problem with Reform’s big policy. There was also the small matter of it already being the law.

We’re shocked that the party that pledged to introduce two-year probationary periods for police officers, when there are already two-year probationary periods for police officers, would make such a blunder. Shocked, we tell you!

Both the policy and the lack of a simple check of the existing law were panned by tweeters.

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