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On May 29, 2025

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Sir Keir Starmer will launch a “desperate attack” on Nigel Farage’s financial plans as a result of he’s eight factors behind within the polls, Reform UK has mentioned. The Prime Minister is predicted to induce the general public to reject Reform UK’s calls to make use of “family finances” as a playing chip on “unfunded” tax cuts.

It comes after the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) mentioned the occasion’s pledge to extend the revenue tax private allowance to £20,000 a yr may price between £50-80billion yearly. Speaking at a press convention in central London on Tuesday, Mr Farage mentioned his measures have been “aimed at British families” as he introduced plans to scrap the two-child profit cap and totally reverse the winter gasoline cost cuts. Sir Keir is predicted to say: “In opposition, we said Liz Truss would crash the economy and leave you to pick the bill.

“We have been proper. And we have been elected to repair that mess. Now in authorities, we’re as soon as once more combating the identical fantasy – this time from Nigel Farage.

“Farage is making the very same wager Liz Truss did. That you’ll be able to spend tens of billions on tax cuts with out a correct means of paying for it. And identical to Truss, he’s utilizing your loved ones funds, your mortgage, your payments as a playing chip on his mad experiment. The end result would be the similar.

“Liz Truss bet the house and lost. £45billion in unfunded tax cuts, with no means to pay for them. Markets reacted, the economy tanked and we’re all still paying the price for mortgages, rents and bills that spiralled out of control.

“I won’t let that happen. Labour’s Plan for Change has stabilised the economy, with growth at the fastest rate in the G7 this year, four cuts to interest rates, and a pay boost for 3.5million low-paid workers.”

But a Reform UK spokesman branded Sir Keir’s intervention as a “desperate attack from a party eight points behind in the polls”.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2061394/politics-live-reform-Labour-Nigel-Farage-Keir-Starmer