As we’ve covered, Reform UK politicians have a terrible record for showing up to work. Despite this, Reform’s chairperson, Lee Anderson, had the brass neck to say the following:
A Tale of Two Priorities.
The first picture is from last night's debate on the British Coal Superannuation Pension Scheme, which shows a lack of interest from the majority of Labour MPs.
The second picture was taken a few hours earlier.
Makes you wonder doesn't it?
Vote… pic.twitter.com/EtPEjKTbfU
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) June 23, 2026
Reform has some gall
First, let’s look at the record of the Reform MPs who entered into Parliament for the first time in 2024. As of 24 June, there have been 554 votes in the House of Commons since the 2024 general election:
- Nigel Farage has 170 recorded votes. This means his attendance record is just 31%, so less than a third of all possible votes.
- Richard Tice has 279 recorded votes. This means his attendance record is 50%.
On 1 June, the Metro reported:
The Reform UK leader has now missed the past 77 votes in the House of Commons – including major motions on the King’s Speech and referring Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee.
He failed to vote at all throughout April and May, with his last action having taken place on March 18 – a ‘no’ on a motion to increase higher education fee limits.
So that was a 100% non-attendance rate for that period then. Impressive, honestly.
Farage blamed all this on the May local elections. The problem with his argument is that there have been 39 votes since then, and he’s only showed up to one.
There was also the Makerfield by-election, to be fair, but it’s not like Farage was doing constant press interviews. He was actively avoiding the media because of the ‘£5 million gift’ scandal.
To be fair to Anderson, he is topping Farage and Tice, having shown up to 318 votes — a whopping 57% of all possible votes. This is like if you only showed up to work three days out of every five.
The hypocrisy doesn’t end there anyway. Given that Anderson called out the low attendance, you’d expect Reform politicians had shown up en masse. In actuality, it was just Anderson and Tice.
25% was the highest turn out of any political party. Lib Dems zero, Greens zero, Tories less than 1%. SNP zero, Labour 2%. There you go.
— Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) June 24, 2026
Layabouts
Reform politicians are quick to point out that the UK government isn’t working, and they’re not wrong. From what we’ve seen, though, these Reformers won’t even show up — let alone work.
*Data notes: The government notes: “Members may not vote in every division of the House. This can be due to a number of reasons… A Member may wish to abstain, or have a procedural reason for not voting. Members can be absent carrying out consitituency or ministerial business, or be unable to attend for other reasons.” Individual House of Commons voting data excludes abstentions.
Featured image via the Canary
By Willem Moore
