Drowning in Denial

One in Five Homes in Reform UK Heartlands Projected to be Underwater Within 25 Years

As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads

More than 700,000 homes – one in five households – across Reform UK’s 10 English councils face a medium or higher flood risk by the middle of the century, a joint Byline Times and Bylines Network analysis of Aviva modelling reveals.

This equates to approximately one in five households in the party’s local strongholds – communities stretching from Lincolnshire’s sinking coastline and Lancashire’s Morecambe Bay, to the Humber Estuary and the Thames-Medway delta in Kent.

Despite its own councils sitting in some of England’s most flood-exposed zones, Reform has spoken out against net zero targets and pledged to scrap local climate resilience programmes.