Reform wants to scrap GDPR. It is being sued under GDPR

This article was published on August 31, 2026 Reform UK has pledged to abolish the UK GDPR and replace it with a light-touch law modelled on New Zealand's, where the maximum fine is NZ$50,000. The party says EU data adequacy would survive. It is currently being sued under the regulation it wants to scrap. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. His party has pledged to abolish the UK GDPR. 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 an