Peter Stefanovic – the lawyer and filmmaker whose videos debunking political deceit have been watched more than a billion times – has published a new film arguing that if UK media properly explained Reform UK’s policy programme to the public, the party’s support would collapse. The film goes through Reform’s Great Repeal Act line by line: scrapping day one sick pay rights, legalising fire and rehire, lifting restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts, repealing the Renters’ Rights Act, abolishing the Equality Act, and leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – all while pushing immigration misinformation that half the country has absorbed as fact.
Stefanovic, CEO of the Campaign for Social Justice and a former partner at a city law firm, has built a following of millions through his methodical forensic approach to political claims. He was nominated for Legal Personality of the Year in the Solicitors Journal for his support for junior doctors. His films function as evidence-based rebuttals: he quotes the policy, checks the reality, and presents the gap between the two.
The Great Repeal Act – what it actually says
Reform has promised a “Great Repeal Act” – a day one legislative sweep of what they describe as unnecessary regulation. The targets include some of the most significant workers’ rights legislation in a generation.
Labour’s Employment Rights Act – described by the government as the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation – introduced day one sick pay rights for all employees, ended fire and rehire practices that allow employers to sack workers and hire them back on worse terms, and created rights to guaranteed hours for those on zero-hours contracts, including reasonable notice of shifts and compensation for short notice cancellation.
Reform’s Great Repeal Act would strip back day one sick pay rights, lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts and legalise fire and rehire. As we reported in our Kenyon interview piece, Kenyon himself admitted he didn’t know what the Great Repeal Bill was when asked about it on camera. Reform’s press office rang the journalist after the interview to explain the party’s own position.
The Renters’ Rights Act – which abolishes no-fault evictions, the mechanism that allows landlords to remove tenants without giving any reason, and introduces new duties around health hazards – would also be repealed. As we reported in our Renters’ Rights Act explainer, no-fault evictions have condemned millions of renters to precarious living conditions for decades while landlords with legal backing and no accountability for their decision.
The Equality Act – and what repealing it would mean
Stefanovic’s film focuses particularly on the Equality Act. Reform’s Suella Braverman announced on camera, with a smile, that Reform would “get rid of the equalities department” on day one and “repeal the Equality Act.”
The Equality Act 2010 is the primary piece of anti-discrimination legislation in the UK. It protects against discrimination based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. These protections apply in the workplace, in education and in public services.
Stefanovic’s assessment of what repealing the Equality Act would mean is direct: it would effectively legalise discrimination against a worker if they are a woman, disabled, Black, pregnant, or gay.
Reform’s own framing of the Equality Act, published after their Makerfield candidate Robert Kenyon could not explain the policy on camera – as we reported in our Kenyon interview piece – was that the Act “has allowed this country to be ripped apart by diversity, equality and inclusion, allowing discrimination against white working class boys in favour of giving unfair advantages to other groups.” They propose to replace it with a “Workplace Fairness Act.” As we reported in our Carol Vorderman open letter piece, Vorderman specifically cited the Equality Act abolition pledge as part of Reform’s documented pattern of threatening women’s rights, alongside the McMurdock assault conviction and the Employment Rights Act vote.
Leaving the ECHR
Reform also proposes leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and replacing it with a domestic Bill of Rights. The ECHR, incorporated into UK law through the Human Rights Act, provides the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, the right to protest and a series of other fundamental protections.
Stefanovic’s assessment: families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough were able to demand justice because of ECHR protections. Victims of abuse can seek safety because of ECHR protections. Disabled people are treated with dignity because of ECHR protections.
His question is specific: would you trust a party that wants to repeal the Equality Act, strip back workers’ rights, legalise zero-hours exploitation and fire and rehire, with the creation of your replacement human rights framework? Stefanovic compares it to “handing a kitten over to a hungry crocodile.”
The immigration misinformation
The film’s second major section concerns immigration. Farage has cited 200,000 Channel crossings as evidence of a crisis. Stefanovic establishes that this figure covers several years rather than a current rate.
The factual position: small boat crossings are down approximately 40% so far in 2026 compared to the same period in 2025. Net migration has fallen to 171,000 – the lowest level since 2012 excluding the pandemic, and down 48% year-on-year from 331,000. As we reported in our net migration piece, this is down from a record 944,000 under the Conservative governments that delivered Brexit.
The consequence of sustained immigration misinformation is documented. A survey by British Future found that nearly half of Britons incorrectly believe net migration has actually increased. Stefanovic describes this as “a shocking indictment of UK media” – that a statistic falling 48% is being understood by half the population as rising.
He closes on what Reform does not mention: more than a fifth of the NHS workforce in England is made up of migrant workers. Without them, as he states plainly, Britain would grind to a halt in health and social care.
The argument Stefanovic is making
Stefanovic’s thesis is not that Reform voters are stupid or wrong to be angry about the things they are angry about. It is that they are being sold a programme of specific, documented policies that would remove protections from the people Reform claims to represent – zero-hours workers, renters, women, disabled people – while using immigration misinformation to keep attention elsewhere.
The Great Repeal Act would strip sick pay from day one employees. The Renters’ Rights Act repeal would bring back no-fault evictions. The Equality Act repeal would legalise discrimination in the workplace. The ECHR withdrawal would remove fundamental legal protections. These are not interpretations or projections. They are Reform’s published commitments.
The question Stefanovic’s film poses is: how much of Reform’s polling support would survive a serious public reckoning with what the party has actually promised to do?
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