Nigel Farage launches his party’s offering for the July 4th poll in Wales, upstaging Labour and the Tories
Mr Farage, reinstalled as Reform’s leader three weeks ago, was followed by much of the Westminster press pack to the old mining town of Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales for the launch of the party’s manifesto, which it calls its “contract” with voters.
Reform’s pledges include abolishing income tax for people earning under £20,000, the scrapping of net-zero climate targets, and a promise to block all “non-essential” legal immigration to the UK. It also said it would scrap the BBC license fee, take Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, and detain and deport illegal migrants and refugees.
“Even with the extremely optimistic assumptions about how much economic growth would increase, the sums in this manifesto do not add up,” said the IFS. “The package as a whole is problematic. Spending reductions would save less than stated and the tax cuts would cost more than stated, by a margin of tens of billions of pounds per year.”
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