Reform UK leader Nigel Farage today voiced concerns over calls for restoring death penalty today.
A poll from More in Common UK released in January found that a majority of Britons support reinstating the death penalty in the UK, with Millennials showing the strongest support.
Three in five, (58 per cent) of Millennials born between 1981 and 1986, believe capital punishment should be reintroduced.
Asked by a reporter from the Sun what the party’s position on the death penalty was, Farage said: “These are issues of conscience, just as the assisted dying debate will be when it comes up on Friday, just as the abortion limit. These are all issues of conscience. Nothing on the death penalty will be part of party policy.
“I have to say, personally, given there have been 500 quite serious miscarriages of justice in this country since the early 1970s, I don’t think I could ever support it. But I understand why others take a different point of view.
“Although I do think it’s quite interesting there’s a younger generation coming through who seem to increasingly support the death penalty. And I suspect it will be back within the next decade as an issue of major national debate. Not quite yut, but it’s coming.
“But, certainly, these things will not be party policy, far, far from it.”
