Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have told the Sun they’d scrap £13.5 billion in net zero spending to reverse Reeves’ hike to fuel duty due September:
“Reform would cut £13.5billion in bonkers green schemes. And we’d use that money to do what Reeves should but won’t — cut your bills. That starts with scrapping this crazed plan to increase petrol taxes at the worst possible moment.
If Reform was in Government, it would never have happened. We will spend the next few months trying to shame Rachel Reeves into cancelling it. But if she doesn’t — whether because she’s running scared of the Greens or in hock to her far-left backbenchers — then Reform will reverse it in our first Budget.”
The pair will host a press conference at 10am. Reeves herself is up in the Commons at 11.15am. Stay tuned…
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”