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Reform mask Slips in workers' rights vote
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage attends a farmers protest in Whitehall, London, March 4, 2025

REFORM’S pro-worker mask has slipped, the TUC said today, after all its MPs joined the Tories in opposing Labour’s employment rights law.

Nigel Farage’s Commons contingent voted against the legislation despite polling showing that its main provisions are highly popular in their own constituencies.

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Reform and the Conservatives have shown their true colours once again.

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