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Reform UK stands prepared to repair Britain, Nigel Farage has instructed readers of the Express, in an unique letter that sees the occasion’s chief pledge to be on the facet of working folks. The intervention comes after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her “tax-raising Budget”.

Mr Farage, who’s the favorite to be Britain’s subsequent Prime Minister in line with successive months of opinion polling, mentioned that he takes the prospect of coming into Number 10 “seriously” as he mentioned his occasion was “building a team to turn our economy around”. He mentioned that any Government he would go away would “not be full of career politicians”, however as an alternative made up of “people who have done things in the real world, who know how money is made and should be spent”.

In the letter, he took intention at different events, saying that “clueless politicians have never run a business and have no idea how the real world works”. Mr Farage mentioned that he wouldn’t be stunned if a “financial crisis causes an early General Election”.

Reform UK, he said, would be ready in such an eventuality, and would defend Britons who work hard and pay their taxes, and “keep this country running”.

He bemoaned the state of the country, saying that the economy was “in desperate trouble” and said that Express readers could “see for yourself that nothing works anymore”.

With growth slow, and energy prices higher than most other countries, Mr Farage took aim at taxes, which are at a post-war high, as well as the treasury having to fork out £100billion a year just to pay off debts.

And he criticised uncontrolled levels of immigration, which Mr Farage said was “draining our nation”.

In the solemn pledge to readers of this paper, he said these grim statistics were the “file of 14 years of Conservative Government” after which questioned what “side are Labour on?”

He urged readers to recall that they’ve spent 18 months “coming for pensioners, homeowners, savers, small businesses, anybody aspiring for a better life” as he blasted “even if [Labour] promise something today, they will take it away tomorrow”.

Mr Farage mentioned that Reform would “strive to make work pay” and added that they’d all the time be on the facet of small and family-run companies. He pledged to “reduce the bloated welfare state” in addition to increase the edge the place folks begin to pay earnings tax “as soon as possible”.

He additionally promised to deliver down vitality payments by “scrapping crazy Net Zero targets”.

Mr Farage ended his pledge to our readers, saying that his occasion shall be prepared in time for the subsequent election, with a plan to “make Britain once again the best place to start a business, raise a family and build a future”.

“I will not let you down,” wrote Mr Farage.

The letter, which options within the Daily Express in full, marks the primary from the chief of Reform UK to readers of this paper because the final General Election.

It comes as Reform UK revealed that they’ve spent £1 million on campaigning forward of the Autumn Budget.

The spend, which highlights the rising stage of help the occasion has been having fun with from companies, donors and members of the general public, has gone in the direction of double-page unfold advert buys, landmark press conferences, and focused digital adverts.

Reform UK has additionally spent appreciable sums on its landmark press conferences, together with the launch of Small Business for Reform on the Royal Horticultural Halls in London, which was attended by 300 small and medium-sized enterprise house owners and featured a keynote speech from Checkatrade founder Kevin Byrne.

This launch resulted in additional than 3,000 small companies backing Reform’s marketing campaign to chop crimson tape and regulation, and extra help for British SMEs.

As a part of the occasion’s pre-budget marketing campaign, Deputy Leader Richard Tice made a keynote tackle to enterprise leaders at Bloomberg, and Head of Policy Zia Yusuf addressed members of the CBI at their annual convention.

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