Tories shift into defence mode with warnings of ‘Labour for a generation’
The Conservatives have moved into defence mode with just over two weeks remaining of the General Election campaign, urging voters not to hand Labour a massive majority.
Following the unveiling of Reform UK’s pledges at an event yesterday, a Tory spokesperson said a vote for Nigel Farage’s party would mean a ‘generation under Labour’.
Michael Gove has also accused Labour of planning to hike up council tax if they take power at the July 4 election.
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Farage launched Reform’s ‘Contract with You’ in South Wales yesterday – and denied it was a manifesto, saying people had come to associate that word with ‘lie’.
But the Institute for Fiscal Studies economic think tank said the party’s sums ‘do not add up’.
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The total cost of all the policies was £141 billion, around 30 times as much as Labour’s plans, which Reform said would be paid for largely by scrapping the government’s net zero targets.