Prime minister promises series of tax cuts but his party’s election policies contain little in the way of surprises
a “blank cheque” as he launched a Conservative manifesto that promised a series of tax cuts but contained little in the way of surprises.
He added: “So if you don’t know what Labour will do, don’t vote for them. If you’re concerned about what Starmer isn’t telling you, don’t vote for them. And if you’re worried about what Labour’s £2,094 of tax rises would mean for your family’s financial security, don’t vote for them.
Abolishing self-employed NICs would be an incentive, Sunak said, for “the risk-takers, the people who graft hard to make a living who get our economy growing”. While Sunak said all these pledges were fully costed, by far the biggest increases in suggested government revenues come from two highly contested sources: a claimed £12bn saved by cutting back on social security payments, and £6bn on cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion.
On green policies, the manifesto continued to push back against net zero commitments, with one policy including giving the Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on emissions, “an explicit mandate to consider costs to households and UK energy security in its future climate advice”.Make sense of the UK election campaign with Archie Bland's daily briefing, direct to your inbox at 5pm .
In a post-speech Q&A, Sunak was twice challenged as to why he had not been more bold, particularly on the ECHR, with one question suggesting this could be the solution to theAsked about deteriorating public services, Sunak said day-to-day spending would rise, while adding that it was “reasonable to look for efficiencies in the public sector”.
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