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It was reported that the rebel political occasion will probably be focusing on the Conservative-held Boroughs of Bromley and Bexley, in addition to the independently held Havering Council, and Labour-held Barking and Dagenham.

The information comes forward of a deliberate launch of the occasion’s London marketing campaign subsequent month [January]and polling suggesting that the Labour vote within the capital is splitting in central London to Zack Polanski’s Green occasion and different left-wing teams.

“Labour are going to find their vote horrendously split,” Mr Farage informed the Daily Mail. “With the Greens, and Corbyn and the Gaza independents. All these different people. There is a chance that Labour vote really gets hit.”

Mr Polanski, who turned chief of the Green Party earlier this 12 months, has greater than doubled the membership of the resurgent left-wing motion, and, on social media, has incessantly criticised Labour and Reform.

Mr Farage additionally informed the Daily Mail that he intends to undertake the “broken windows” technique, which was utilized by former Republican Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. Mr Giuliani was Mayor within the Nineteen Nineties, and lowered crime throughout town, taking what the Mail described as a “zero tolerance” to minor offences.

The Reform UK chief mentioned that his occasion would introduce a “radical change” to how offences like shoplifting and cell phone theft are dealt with. He mentioned that “you can now shoplift with impunity” including that Reform believed “every single shoplifting case should be prosecuted – every single one”.

In 2025 there have been greater than 530,000 circumstances of shoplifting reported within the 12 months to March, Only 18% of circumstances result in a person being charged. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) mentioned they believed there to have been over 20 million circumstances throughout the nation.

Mr Farage mentioned that he admired Mr Giuliani and added that in his time working within the US, he “saw the most dangerous city in America become the safest city in America. We want to model ourselves on that.”

Reform has seen a number of successes in by-elections throughout the nation, and opinion polling means that the occasion is ready to make appreciable features subsequent May. Labour is predicted to lose management of Wales, and Reform is now polling in second place in Scotland.

“There is a genuine collapse in the Labour vote across the country,” Mr Farage informed the Daily Mail.

Local elections are as a consequence of happen in May 2026, with the subsequent Mayoral election not scheduled till 2028.

Both the Mayor and the Met Police have been approached for remark.