Reform UK Vows to Dismantle Deep State, Restore Democracy

According to Breitbart News, Danny Kruger, Reform MP for East Wiltshire who defected from the Conservatives last year, published an 11-page policy document outlining plans to abolish the Cabinet Office and the position of Cabinet Secretary, replacing them with a new Office of the Prime Minister and a Chief of Staff role.

Kruger’s analysis holds that British democracy has become little more than political theatre, with elected officials serving as public relations fronts for policies shaped by an entrenched and ideologically driven civil service. He specifically identified Cabinet Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo as wielding extraordinary influence, noting that the Cabinet Office controls policy coordination across government departments and serves as the single point of contact for Britain’s intelligence agencies.

Returning power to elected ministers

The Reform proposal would dissolve the distinction between elected and permanent government structures. Under the plan, policy briefs would return to individual departments under the control of their respective ministers, who would gain the authority to hire and dismiss civil servants directly.

The current system prevents Ministers, and even the Prime Minister, from getting good quality advice and information, Kruger stated in the document, arguing that real power has shifted from elected representatives to permanent bureaucrats, particularly within the sprawling Cabinet Office apparatus.

The new structure would position ministers and their political advisers at the centre of decision-making, rather than career officials who face no electoral accountability.

Civil service radicalism and ideological capture

While the British civil service is theoretically politically neutral, Breitbart News reports that it has tilted sharply leftward in recent decades, becoming a vehicle for progressive ideology across government institutions.

Even under Conservative administrations, Whitehall departments have promoted fringe gender theory, instructing staff to recognise over 100 gender identities and accept that colleagues may change gender daily. Civil servants were simultaneously discouraged from using terms such as “mother” and “father” as supposedly gendered language.

Mandatory diversity training sessions reportedly lectured employees that Britain is inherently racist and instructed white staff not to question or contradict ethnic minority colleagues.

Bureaucratic resistance to elected government

The civil service has openly resisted democratically determined policy on multiple occasions. In 2022, civil servants threatened strike action over the Johnson government’s plan to process illegal boat migrants in Rwanda rather than housing them in British hotels.

Last week, the Public Commercial Service union, the largest civil service union, voted to double its strike fund in anticipation of what it termed a “hostile” Farage government. The union claimed Reform would undermine civil service impartiality, despite widespread evidence of ideological activism within Whitehall.

Kruger issued a firm warning to any bureaucrats contemplating industrial action: those who strike to undermine ministerial authority and civil service impartiality through unlawful action will lose their positions permanently.

Brexit and the reform imperative

Restoring democratic control to elected officials has been a central aim of Farage since the Brexit campaign. The name “Reform UK” itself reflects this commitment to overhauling British governance structures that have concentrated power in the hands of unaccountable administrators.

The proposals represent the most comprehensive challenge yet to the Blair-era settlement that empowered the permanent bureaucracy at the expense of parliamentary sovereignty and ministerial responsibility.

With information from Breitbart News