Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law
Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand’s. Nigel Farage and the party’s economy chief Robert Jenrick announced the pledge on Tuesday evening, inside a package aimed at small businesses.
Mizy Clifton reported the plan for Politico. Britain wrote an amended version of the EU regulation into domestic law after Brexit, and Reform now wants that unwound.
Farage put it in the language of rescue. “Small businesses are the beating heart of our economy, yet they have been suffocated by years of punishing taxes, suffocating EU red tape and a big-state obsession that rewards dependency over hard work,” he said in remarks carried by the PA news agency.
Jenrick was blunter about the regulation itself. “GDPR has strangled small businesses and tech firms alike in a web of unnecessary regulation,” he said. “Ten years after...
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