Reform UK has made a series of claims about the security of its politicians – with one senior figure suggesting the Government does not “care at all” about their safety.
But ministers and officials have hit back at theses comments, saying there is a “rigorous and proportionate security system in place” and that all MPs are offered “appropriate security measures” based on individual risk assessments.
Here is what we know about Reform’s security claims, fact checked.
Claim 1: The state is ‘providing no protection whatsoever’ for Reform MPs
Zia Yusuf – Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, who is not an MP – posted on social media on 13 July that the “state is providing no protection whatsoever” to his colleagues in the Commons.
“In fact, based on what I have seen in the last 48 hours, none of the Government, the Speaker nor the police care at all about the security of Reform MPs,” he added.
Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, also told The Times this week that his party was paying for personal protection of its senior politicians as they enter and leave the Houses of Parliament because of a lack of security provided by the authorities.
Downing Street has disputed such claims. The Prime Minister’s spokesman said there was “a rigorous and proportionate security system in place to ensure the safety of MPs and ministers”, adding that the Parliamentary Security Department, police and Home Office “work in close co-ordination to assess risk”.
A House of Commons spokesperson also said “all MPs are offered appropriate security measures” and that arrangements are “subject to a rigorous risk-based assessment, conducted by security professionals”.
It is not possible to confirm Yusuf’s claim that no Reform MPs are receiving state protection, as Commons officials have said they will not comment on individual cases.
Reform UK MP Lee Anderson, home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf, and deputy leader Richard Tice hold a wreath as they pay their respects near the home of Ann Widdecombe (Photo: Eleanor Storey/PA Wire)Claim 2: Farage’s taxpayer-funded security was cut by 75 per cent
Following the 2024 general election, Farage was receiving a degree of taxpayer-funded protection from the state.
However, multiple Reform sources have claimed that the level of protection offered to Farage was significantly downgraded last year.
A Reform spokesperson said this offer “represented a reduction of around 75 per cent to protection he already had and which was working”, adding: “No credible assessment can explain a 75 per cent fall in the danger to Mr Farage over a matter of days.”
That same figure was repeated by Yusuf in October, when he described the reduction as “inexplicable”.
The i Paper revealed that this downgraded offer included a bodyguard, car and trained driver, and was comparable to that given to Kemi Badenoch and some Cabinet ministers.
Reform said Farage had rejected the new package, which they described as “downgraded and inadequate”.
Farage also repeated the substance of this claim earlier this month during a speech in which he announced he was triggering a by-election in his constituency, but he gave a slightly lower figure, claiming “70 per cent” of the security funding had been withdrawn.
Since declining the state offer, Reform says Farage has relied on privately funded security, including protection paid for using a £5m gift from the donor Christopher Harborne.
It is not possible to independently verify the scale of the reduction to Farage’s protection detail, as neither the Commons nor the Home Office publishes individualised security spending, and both say they will not comment on specific cases.
However, the claim that Farage’s funding was cut substantially has been made consistently by Yusuf, Farage and other Reform figures over several months.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the the Plough pub in Great Bentley, Essex, he has formally quit as MP for Clacton (Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)Claim 3: Reform politicians face greater danger because they are ‘not mainstream’
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, Robert Jenrick – Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson – argued that party figures face heightened risk specifically because of their political positions.
“There is a legitimate concern that Reform MPs are more endangered than many others, because we raise issues that many mainstream politicians shy away from,” he said.
“If you talk about Islamist extremism, as I do, and Nigel Farage has done for many years, you are likely to be in considerably more danger than those who don’t.”
Some specific incidents involving threats to Farage are a matter of public record. For example, Fayaz Khan was sentenced to five years in prison in October 2025 after being found guilty of threatening to kill the Clacton MP in a video posted to TikTok.
Farage has also said his home was the target of an arson attack, a claim reported by The Telegraph, which said police were investigating but that no suspect had been identified.
The Reform leader also used his recent resignation speech to recount an incident where he was surrounded by a group of around 50 people outside a pub, which he says resulted in his car being “written off”.
He has said he did not make an insurance claim or report the matter publicly at the time, meaning no independent record of the incident has been identified.
No comparative data on the volume or severity of threats received by Reform politicians relative to MPs from other parties has been published by the police, the Commons or any other named body.
Reform UK Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick (Photo: Thomas Krych/Anadolu via Getty Images)Claim 4: The Home Secretary can overrule security decisions
Jenrick told the BBC that Shabana Mahmood bears direct responsibility for the level of security offered to Farage.
“That’s a choice. The home secretary is not powerless … I think it’s within her power to overrule it if she wished to,” he said, referring to the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (Ravec), the body that assesses security arrangements for high-profile individuals.
Ravec, which brings together officials from the Home Office, the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Household, was originally responsible for royal and VIP protection before being brought in to help assess threats to MPs in February 2024.
In principle, the Home Secretary does have the power to overrule Ravec’s decisions.
She delegates day-to-day security decisions to the body but retains ultimate legal responsibility, meaning she can alter the committee’s policy or request a fresh risk assessment.
This was established through Prince Harry’s judicial review, brought after Ravec downgraded his automatic security following his departure as a working royal.
The High Court found in 2024 that there had been “no irrationality or other unlawfulness” in how Ravec reached that decision – a ruling that also set out the legal basis for the Home Secretary’s delegated authority over the committee.
In practice, though, any direct ministerial override of a specific Ravec threat assessment could be challenged in the courts if it were not backed by robust evidence.
Speaking in the Commons on 13 July, Mahmood said the process should remain “fiercely independent”. No documented case of a Home Secretary overruling an individual Ravec decision has been identified in the public domain.
Mahmood has offered Farage a meeting with Ravec’s chair to discuss his own security and that of other Reform politicians, which he confirmed on social media that he has accepted.
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