There are 17 days to go until the general election, and Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are finding themselves overshadowed by seven-times failed MP candidate and Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
While Starmer is out promoting Labour’s vision of a green jobs bonanza and Sunak is making a flurry of campaign stops for the Conservative Party, Reform UK Leader Farage is aiming his red-meat bazooka right at the Tory base.
Today, Farage launches his “contract” with voters — because “manifestos have become a by-word for broken promises,” as the party’s only London Assembly member Alex Wilson put it — at a big event in Welsh town Merthyr Tydfil from 1 p.m.
Expect Farage’s manifesto to contain plenty of overlap with his “working draft,” including policies on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, scrapping net zero, freezing “non-essential” immigration and abolishing inheritance tax on all estates under £2 million. All stuff the Tory right would go for big time.
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