Don't be fooled by Nigel Farage's promise to help families have more children

Unlike many of the Reform leader's obsessions – falling birth rates are real. But his solutions fail to engage with complexity of the issue.

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Nigel Farage has a habit of telling his growing audience of prospective Reform voters that he, and he alone, has found a simple answer to a very complicated problem. Last week, he was at it again: the UK’s plummeting birth rate can be solved, he suggests, with a few tweaks to taxes and benefit payments.

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