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Nigel Farage has introduced Reform UK would elevate the fundamental charge earnings tax threshold from £12,570 to £20,000 if his celebration wins the following normal election. At a significant political rally on Friday to launch his celebration’s native election marketing campaign, he outlined that he would pay for this main tax minimize by rooting out civil service waste in any respect ranges.

He cited Elon Musk’s DOGE unit within the US as his inspiration, telling the viewers: “We will cut taxes. Nobody that earns less than £20,000 a year should pay any income tax whatsoever. We are on the side of the worker, on the side of working people. We want to incentivise those on benefits to get off benefits and get back to work, and not have this nonsense of if you work for more than 16 hours you lose your benefits. No, £20,000 is the right place to start paying tax – let’s make work pay and be on the side of working people.”

He also suggested Reform will abolish inheritance tax not just for farmers, but for all Britons.

He said he would pay for these major tax cuts with “pretty big cuts to the administrative state which has grown out of all proportion”.

He said civil servants would be met with the threat of having to work from the office or be sacked.

He explained: “We need a British form of DOGE as Elon Musk has got in America.”

Mr Farage also used his keynote address to set a new target for Reform UK to overtake Labour’s membership numbers by the end of this year – and become the largest party by membership in British politics.

The war on waste continued with pledges to cut unnecessary spending at local council level.

Mr Farage revealed: “Be in no doubt that local government is broken. There are over 3000 council staff in Britain earning over £100,000 a year.”

Reform UK has submitted 3,000 FOI requests over the last few months, and say they are now armed with the facts as to just how much public money is being wasted.

His speech was delivered at a huge political rally in the centre of Birmingham, to which Reform UK had sold 10,000 tickets.

All four of the party’s MPs were present, as were hundreds of their mayoral and council candidates.

In the biggest surprise announcement of the evening, former UKIP and Brexit campaign mega-donor Arron Banks was revealed as Reform’s candidate for West of England Mayor.

Mr Banks explained: “When Nigel asked me to do I was at a cricket match in South Africa drinking a glass of white wine, but when the boss phones you and says ‘you’ve got to do it’ you’ve got to do it, right?”

The stadium had been decked out in life-size store fronts, bus stops and shuttered pubs. The ground was lined in potholes to show the present failures of councils up and down the nation.

Mr Farage entered the stadium using a JCB pothole filler, lent to him by former Tory donor Lord Bamford, as an emblem of the largest difficulty councils are failing voters over.

Mr Farage advised the thousands-strong viewers: “This is the most ambitious launch ever for a local election campaign but be in no doubt we are standing in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, we are standing in all six of the mayoralties, and we will, as opposed to last year where the party only managed to field candidates in 12% of the seats, be fielding a full list of candidates across the entire country.”

“We remain furious that five and a half million people, with no good reason, have been denied their vote on May 1 this year, but we will from this moment on concentrate on the cards that we have been dealt.”

He additionally launched a livid tirade in opposition to web zero, describing it as a “ludicrous, self-defeating act of economic unilateralism” following the introduced closure of the Scunthorpe works.

Mr Farage warned: “We now become the only member of the G7 that does not produce primary steel. This is incredible, especially given the difficulties of the international situation.”

“Steel is not just an ordinary commodity. It is a vital strategic asset.”