Robert Jenrick, the Reform party's leader, pledged at their conference in Birmingham on Saturday that if elected, they would raise the personal tax-free allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 within their first 100 days. This would benefit an estimated 40 million people and cost around £500 per year for average basic rate taxpayers. Jenrick emphasized that this increase would be the largest in the allowance's history, and threatened to resign if he didn't deliver on his promise. A Labour Party spokesperson dismissed the proposal as a distraction from their party's own scandals.
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The first 15 grand you earn is yours. Every penny, every penny is yours tax-free, £500 a year for the average basic rate taxpayer.
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A tax cut for 40 million people. The biggest rise in the personal allowance in its history, and delivered not in 10 years but in my very first budget.
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Farage and Reform are funding policy after policy through mystery spending cuts, which could put local schools, hospitals and other vital public services at risk.
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It is due to be extended until 2031 under current Treasury plans.
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Mr Jenrick told Reform’s party conference in Birmingham on Saturday: “Here is my pledge to you and to the country.
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“In the first 100 days of a Reform government, in our first Reform budget, we will raise the tax-free personal allowance from £12,570, not just with inflation, not just to £13,000, not just to £14,000, but to £15,000.
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“The first 15 grand you earn is yours.
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He said: “A tax cut for 40 million people.
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Mr Jenrick added: “If I don’t deliver this exactly when I have said that I will, I will resign.
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No ifs, not buts, I will be gone.”
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A Labour Party spokesperson said: "Robert Jenrick only seems to be interested in making people better off when Reform UK are trying to distract from the latest scandal engulfing their party.
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“The public will see right through it.
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"Farage and Reform are funding policy after policy through mystery spending cuts, which could put local schools, hospitals and other vital public services at risk.
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"Meanwhile as soon as Andy Burnham became Prime Minister, he prioritised cutting taxes to provide much needed breathing space for families and businesses on the cost of living.”
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Mr Jenrick also hit out at John Healey during his keynote conference speech, branding the Chancellor the “biggest fraud” in the Cabinet.
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“He’s a man who resigned on principle because the Treasury wouldn’t fund defence, he now runs the Treasury,” Mr Jenrick said.
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“He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and what has Chancellor Healey offered our armed forces?
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“The very same deal he resigned over. What a price his principles fetched, a promotion, a new red box, a grace and favour flat in Downing Street, and a total betrayal of everything he claimed to stand for.”
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