Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of Reform UK, speaks during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025.(AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

A trade union boss has hit out at Richard Tice’s plan to fill the civil service with Reform UK supporters if it wins the next election.

The party’s deputy leader said the would set up an immigration “department of believers” to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.

He said a Reform government would expect civil servants to “get stuck in or, frankly, in the nicest possible way, go and get a job somewhere else because it’s not going to end well”.

Whitehall officials are supposed to be politically neutral to they can give impartial advice to ministers, who then have to make the final decision on policy.

But Tice said he wanted them to be people who “believe in the cause of secure borders”.

Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, which........

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