Nigel Farage's ally Robert Jenrick has pledged to cut taxes for millions of voters within 100 days of forming a government if Reform UK wins the next general election. The proposed tax cut would raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000, taking 2.9 million people out of income tax and saving families around £1,000 per year. Jenrick has promised to resign as Chancellor if he fails to deliver on this pledge within the first 100 days, with a cost to the Treasury estimated at £17.7 billion in the first year. The proposal aims to alleviate the rising burden of taxes on workers and is expected to be funded through savings from welfare and foreign aid budgets.
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Nigel Farage's party Reform UK has pledged to cut taxes for "working people" and raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000, which would take 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether. This is part of a larger plan to slash £80 billion from public spending, with more than half coming from the benefits budget. Reform UK's Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick said he will resign if he fails to deliver this pledge within the first 100 days** of taking office, which would be one of the largest rises in the personal allowance in history. The plan is intended to ease the cost of living and kickstart the economy, but critics say it is a distraction from the party's funding scandals.
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Britain now has the highest tax burden since records began...higher than when we were paying for the war.
right frames the current situation as a problem caused by high taxation
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The task is mighty. But our cause is right and our country is worth it.
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They tried to knock us down. We're still standing. Now let's get Britain standing again.
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Robert Jenrick tried to put Reform UK's chaotic conference back on track on Saturday by pledging to cut taxes for millions of voters within the first 100 days of forming a government.
Mr Jenrick, who is expected to become Chancellor if Nigel Farage wins the next general election, said that he would raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000 – taking 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether and ensuring the state pension remains out of reach of the Treasury.
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Mr Jenrick – who promised to resign as Chancellor if he failed to deliver the tax cut within the promised timescale of 100 days – said it was his 'mission' to deliver the 'biggest rise in the personal allowance in its history'.
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Reform said that for a typical family the move would save £1,000 a year.
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The annual earnings at which income tax starts to be paid has been frozen at £12,570 since 2021 and is due to stay at that level until 2031, but that has been penalising ever-greater numbers of workers as rising inflation erodes the value of the allowance.
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And the increase to the state pension next year to £13,000 will push millions of pensioners above the threshold, meaning they will have to start paying income tax.
The move came as Reform tried to escape the controversy over undercover filming aired by Channel 4 on Thursday which led to the suspension of aides Dan Jukes and James Orr over alleged attempts to circumvent electoral law.
Reform says that its long-term aim is to raise the personal allowance to £20,000 a year.
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Mr Jenrick told the conference in Birmingham: 'The task is mighty.
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They tried to knock us down.
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We're still standing.
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Now let's get Britain standing again.'
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Mr Jenrick said the cost to the Treasury of raising the allowance would be £17.7billion in the first year, rising to £21billion in the fifth year of the next Parliament, and that it would be funded through £80billion of savings from cutting the welfare bill, Net Zero spending and the foreign aid budget.
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Robert Jenrick spoke at the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham
Mr Jenrick has promised to resign as Chancellor if he failed to deliver the tax cut within the first weeks of a Reform government
He told delegates: 'There has never, in our lifetimes, been a worse time to be a worker in Britain.
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Britain now has the highest tax burden since records began...higher than when we were paying for the war.'
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He added: 'Now, for the first time, the freeze means they're going to be taxing the state pension.
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What a disgrace...no wonder so many of our most ambitious young people are seeking their futures abroad.'
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Mr Jenrick challenged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to match his pledge, saying: 'The hard choice for Burnham and for us is exactly the same.
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We choose the worker.'
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Speaking to GB News after the announcement, Mr Farage said: 'I have been arguing for raised allowances for 20 years,' adding: 'The next pension increase will take nearly ten million pensioners into paying tax.
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So it actually helps simplify the tax system.
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It takes three million out of tax, but also it widens the gap between whether it's worth going to work or not going to work.
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And what Andy Burnham picked up on the door is what I've been picking up for ages.
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People say, "I get up at 5.30, I go to work, the traffic's awful, the job is hard, and I'm almost no better off than the people next door who sit around and smoke dope all day".
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'If we don't get Britain working again, if we don't increase our productivity, we are going bust.
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And Mr Farage also repeated his prediction on Saturday that Mr Burnham would call a general election in the spring.
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A Labour Party spokesman 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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A Tory Party source on Saturday told the MoS: 'Nigel said he would sack anyone if they can't deliver on their 100-day plans.
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We all know Rob wants the top job, so I guess this is one way of getting rid of a leadership rival.'
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