An Expose
How Nigel Farage's support for Trump's war on Iran is costing British families hundreds of pounds in higher energy and petrol bills -- and why his prize draw PR stunts won't save you.
When Trump launched military strikes on Iran, oil prices surged. Energy bills rose. British families faced hundreds of pounds more to keep the lights on and the heating running.
While ordinary people worried about their next bill, Nigel Farage and his Reform UK colleagues were busy cheering on the very war that caused it. Senior Reform figures publicly called for the UK to join the bombing, to lend military bases to the Americans, and to "make all our assets available".
Now, as petrol and energy costs bite, Farage is touring petrol stations and offering to pay one lucky street's energy bills for a year. One street. Out of millions. The rest of you? You're on your own.
Trump's military strikes on Iran triggered a sharp spike in global oil prices. The Strait of Hormuz -- through which a huge proportion of the world's oil flows -- came under immediate threat. The direct result for British families: higher petrol prices at the pump, and energy bills set to rise sharply in the months ahead.
Farage's own deputy Richard Tice said a Reform government would be "helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate". Reform MP Nadhim Zahawi called for the UK to "join the bombing if needed". Suella Braverman called it "wrong" not to lend the Americans UK military bases. These are not fringe voices -- they are Reform's senior leadership.
As oil prices surged and British pensioners faced soaring costs, Donald Trump dismissed the human impact, saying rising oil and gas prices were "a very small price to pay". Farage and Kemi Badenoch, according to the Liberal Democrats, cheered in agreement. The message from Reform was clear: your bills are not their problem.
"A Reform government would be helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate."
Richard Tice -- Reform UK Deputy Leader
"We should make all of our assets available to the US and even join the bombing if needed."
Nadhim Zahawi -- Reform UK MP
"It was the wrong decision not to loan the use of UK military bases to the US during their initial offensive in Iran."
Suella Braverman -- Reform UK
"Rising oil and gas prices are a very small price to pay."
Donald Trump -- cheered on by Farage and Badenoch
The US and Israel launch military operations against Iran. Global oil prices spike immediately. The Strait of Hormuz comes under threat. UK energy analysts warn of significant bill increases. British families brace for impact.
Tice, Zahawi, and Braverman publicly call for the UK to back the bombing, lend military assets, and join US forces if necessary. Reform is reported to have "voiced support for the US-Israeli war on Iran, which is pushing up fuel prices." Farage sends mixed signals throughout.
As petrol prices rise and public anger about energy bills grows, Farage suddenly reverses course -- claiming the UK "doesn't have the capability" to help the Americans. Bloomberg reports he has reversed his position. Labour calls it "panic". He cannot U-turn on the damage already done.
Farage tours a petrol station in Derbyshire, subsidising strangers' fuel for the cameras. Reform launches a prize draw to pay one street's energy bills for a year. A lottery -- for a crisis they helped create. Labour says Farage "spent the past week calling for escalation that would make cost-of-living pressures even worse."
What Reform's Own Spokesman Admitted
+£200Reform's own Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick acknowledged the government is adding around "200 pounds worth of levies and taxes" to the average household energy bill -- levies that existed before the war Reform backed made everything worse by pushing up the underlying cost of oil and gas.
Reform's senior figures called for the UK to back Trump's military strikes on Iran. Tice wanted to help "in any way appropriate". Zahawi wanted to join the actual bombing. Braverman wanted to hand Americans our military bases. Farage never clearly opposed any of it. When Trump said rising oil prices were "a very small price to pay", Farage nodded along.
As oil prices surge and energy bills rise, Farage suddenly says the UK "doesn't have the capability" to help the Americans. He is touring petrol stations in Derbyshire. Reform is running a prize draw. The party that cheered on a war is now asking you to enter a competition to win back a fraction of the money their friends cost you. Left Foot Forward called it hypocrisy. They are right.
The Liberal Democrats put it plainly: Farage cheered on Trump's war on Iran, which sent petrol prices and energy bills through the roof. Now he wants to be seen as the man cutting your bills.
He is not addressing the source of the problem -- a war his party's leading figures wanted the UK to join. He is not offering structural change. He is offering a prize draw and a photo opportunity at a petrol station.
Jenrick himself admitted the war drives up fuel and energy prices, even as his party called for UK involvement. That is not a policy position. That is a contradiction -- and ordinary British families are paying for it.
Share this page. Talk to your neighbours. Hold Farage and Reform to account for the positions they took when it mattered -- before they decided to U-turn once the bills started arriving.