REFORM UK is led by “posh, private schoolboys who want to act like they’re working-class heroes,” GMB general secretary Gary Smith said today.

Slamming the far-right party’s leader Nigel Farage for voting against the Employment Rights Bill, he said: “Mr Farage and his ex-Tory soulmates are no friends of workers.

“Do they really think we can’t see the bankers, the chancers, the anti-union blowhards?”

Addressing the union’s annual congress in Brighton, he added that Reform’s “sneering” attacks on council pensions were an “utter, utter disgrace” given how many of the workers are on low pay.

Mr Smith blamed the rise of Reform on Labour’s failure to listen to workers, urging ministers to “think again” on the winter fuel allowance, compensation for Waspi women and welfare cuts.

He also demanded ministers back Sizewell C nuclear project this week, warning the country’s energy policy “is wrong … does not listen to the voices of those who know their stuff.”