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Nigel Farage has pledged tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts for 'working people'.
The Reform UK leader said his party would unveil a 'radical' package of tax cuts on Saturday designed to ease the cost of living and kickstart the economy.
Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick is expected to reveal plans to slash £80billion from public spending, with more than half from the bloated benefits budget.
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Some of the savings will be used to pay down the UK's huge deficit and cut crippling government borrowing costs, which have topped more than £100billion a year.
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But Mr Farage hinted that a large chunk will be set aside to reduce the UK's record tax burden, with a focus on helping low and middle earners and small businesses.
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In his keynote speech to Reform's annual conference in Birmingham, Mr Farage said an emergency Budget would be used to 'slash benefits in a big way'.
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But he said the party would also 'cut taxes on working people and pensioners in a radical way'.
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But the party has been investigating whether to lift the £12,570 income tax threshold, currently due to be frozen for almost a decade in what has become the biggest stealth tax in history.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said his party would unveil a 'radical' package of tax cuts designed to ease the cost of living and kickstart the economy
A protester who infiltrated the conference hall was seen being taken away by security guards
Mr Farage's speech was delayed by a security alert after Greenpeace activated a remote-controlled banner on stage during a previous speech by deputy leader Richard Tice, forcing police to search the area for more devices.
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Protesters who had infiltrated the conference hall also repeatedly interrupted the speech.
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Mr Farage brushed aside fresh controversy about his party's funding as 'a little local difficulty'.
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He said it was part of a 'highly coordinated' campaign by the 'Establishment' to damage the party.
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He insisted he would not be 'distracted' and predicted that his party could still win the next election, which he said was likely to be next year.
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Reflecting on Reform's extraordinary rise, he said: 'We campaigned on a slogan: Get Starmer out.
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Mr Farage pledged Reform's first 100 days would result in a policy blitz, including stopping the boats and slashing energy bills by scrapping Net Zero levies.
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The party will announce plans on Saturday to increase medical training to reduce dependence on foreign doctors and nurses.
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He warned Establishment figures in the civil service, courts and House of Lords not to stand in the party's way.
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'Parliament will sit, if necessary, for 24 hours a day, for six days a week until we pass the necessary legislation, and our policies will be explicit in our offering document to the British people,' he said.
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I expect the House of Lords to honour that...
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But if they don't, well we will present them with an idea.
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We'll appoint hundreds of new peers so that we have a majority in the House of Lords.
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'And if that proves difficult, we will hold a referendum on the current composition of the House of Lords, and they would be swept away by a British public appalled by them.'
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The Reform leader savaged the Conservatives, saying they should 'never be forgiven' for overseeing a huge wave of immigration after Brexit.
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And he said Labour would bankrupt the country and would 'never stop the boats'.
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Meanwhile, friends of Mr Farage said he has been weighing up his future in politics following a string of security scares and funding scandals.
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The embattled Reform UK leader suspended two key aides yesterday in a bid to close down the latest funding controversy.
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Mr Farage denied his party had broken any laws or 'taken any dodgy money'.
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But allies acknowledged that he has been ground down by a series of recent controversies and setbacks.
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One said he had spent the second half of the summer contemplating his political future.
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Mr Farage pictured with close aide Dan Jukes, one of two key aides who have been suspended amid claims of accepting foreign donations
A source said: 'Like anyone, he does sometimes take stock of his life.
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You cannot overstate how upsetting the murder of Ann Widdecombe has been and there are other security incidents that are not in the public domain which are very serious.
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But he is not walking away.'
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Reform's head of policy James Orr and long-serving aide Dan Jukes stepped down yesterday over claims by Channel 4 News that Reform took funding from a US firm for three polls it commissioned earlier this year, costing £32,500.
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Both men were secretly filmed discussing the arrangement, which could breach electoral law.
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Rival parties have also asked the police to investigate separate allegations that the two men discussed funding a £500,000 donation from a fake American businessman via an undercover reporter posing as his UK-based son.
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The plan, which was also discussed on camera with Mr Farage, appeared to be designed to get round a ban on foreign donations.
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Reform insisted it had done nothing wrong.
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But the controversy threatens to mire Reform in further questions.
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Mr Farage dismissed questions about his own involvement, saying he had no idea anything was untoward when he met the fake donors over oysters and champagne.
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'I was in the middle of a by-election,' he said.
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'I was told I had to go and meet these people.
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'If you look at this video I asked the question 'is this all above board, has this been legally checked?'
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