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Reform UK and the party’s leader Nigel Farage MP have been accused by Labour and the Conservatives of breaking promises to cut council tax.

Nigel Farage MP speaking at a Reform UK event in March 2026.

We’ve taken a look at what Reform UK and Mr Farage said during last year’s elections, and what Reform-led councils have actually done when it comes to council tax.

Council tax claims

In a now-deleted post on Facebook Plaid Cymru Senedd candidate Harri Roberts claimed that “one in six” young people in Wales are “unemployed”.

A job centre sign

This figure refers to the proportion of economically active 16-24 year olds in Wales who are unemployed. The figure for all 16-24 year olds in Wales is more like one in ten.

Youth unemployment

An image has been shared widely on social media with a caption claiming it shows a destroyed US air base in Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti national flag.

This image is fake. It doesn’t correspond to genuine satellite imagery of US military bases in Kuwait, and contains a SynthID watermark, indicating it was generated using Google's AI tools.

Fake image