Tomorrow will unveil more than 60
job-creating policies to kickstart the economy as part of Reform
UK's Economic Rescue Plan.
Each one of these policies are fiscally neutral and can be
implemented immediately at no cost to the Treasury.
Among the measures included in the detailed policy document are:
- Approval of the Rosebank oil field
- Restart licensing for new oil and gas fields
- We will legislate to remove the planning and environmental
blockers for new runway projects, including Heathrow and Gatwick
- Make all water reservoirs Nationally Significant
Infrastructure Projects', bringing them into the national
fast-track for major projects
- Implement a broad Permitted Development Right for brownfield
residential development
At a speech in central London tomorrow will unveil a rival teal
budget book setting out the different choices Reform would
make.
They include cutting £40 billion of wasteful spending on the
benefits bill, net zero subsidies and foreign to give the average
household £1,300 in tax relief.
Reform UK's Shadow Chancellor said:
'Everything reported so far suggests this will be a mañana
budget', with dodging the tough decisions our
country needs.
"We can't continue like this. The country can't wait 10 years for
Andy to work out a plan - we need action
now.
Reform would bring forward more than 60 job-creating measures in
our first budget to kickstart the economy. These common sense
policies cost the taxpayer nothing - it's a no brainer.
"Reform UK has the plan to make the economy work again: spend
less, tax less, borrow less, and finally put the British people
first.
Reform UK Leader said:
The British public is frankly fed up with successive governments
dodging the big decisions.
It's clear that urgent action is required. Reform's proposals
will create a vibrant, growing private sector that delivers
well-paid jobs for British citizens.
Britain is broken. Britain needs Reform.'
NOTE TO EDITORS: Full list of proposals below.
- Approve Rosebank immediately
- Restart licensing for new oil and gas fields
- Legalise onshore exploration in new licences
- Abolish the Energy Profits Levy immediately
- Return the statutory objective of the North Sea Transition
Authority to maximum economic extraction, removing the net zero
obligation, and revert its name to Oil & Gas Authority
- Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
- Cease the implementation of the Carbon Border Adjustment
Mechanism (including the fertiliser tax)
- Repudiate the AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
- Implement the recommendations of the Fingleton Review for
nuclear energy in full immediately
- Legislate for the automatic approval of French and South
Korean nuclear designs as safe
- Reduce affordable housing requirements to 0% for brownfield
developments outside of major cities and 5% for major cities
- Implement a broad Permitted Development Right for brownfield
residential development
- Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain rules
- Exit the Aarhus Convention
- Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including
Nutrient Neutrality
- End the ban on household boilers
- Legalise the use of air conditioning to meet overheating
requirements and prohibit cooling hierarchy rules
- Remove mandatory Energy Performance Certificate improvements
for residential and commercial buildings
- Revoke the Future Homes Standard
- Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
- Legislate planning and environmental approval for new runway
projects, including Heathrow and Gatwick, including full
overrides of other legislation, unlike the broken HS2 Act
- Introduce competitive auctions for airport take-off and
landing slots, starting with new and surrendered slots at
Heathrow and Gatwick
- End the use of target-consistent' carbon pricing in project
evaluation
- Prohibit consideration of carbon emissions in individual
planning applications
- Make all water reservoirs Nationally Significant
Infrastructure Projects', bringing them into the national
fast-track for major projects
- Make Development Consent Orders truly a one-stop shop, by
removing the
- requirement that the original authority agree
- Restrict judicial review for planning decisions by the
Secretary of State
- Scrap Net Zero rules that apply during construction (e.g.,
National Highways' requirement that the Lower Thames Crossing be
constructed without using diesel)
- Scrap social value test for procurement
- Remove limits on the number of launches from SaxaVord
Spaceport
- Open the already-built sections of East-West Rail by
resolving the industrial disputesJoining the AI Revolution
- Rapidly review regulatory barriers in the way of AI adoption
across the economy
- Explicitly permit on-location dispatchable generation
(including gas engines or turbines) for industrial developments,
including data centres
- Return the Employer National Insurance rate to 13.8% for
British workers, down from Rachel Reeves's 15%
- Introducing a migrant worker levy to reduce the incentive to
hire low-skilled foreign workers, instead of investing in British
workers or automation
- Repeal Angela Rayner's ruinous Employment Rights Act,
including mandatory trade union access
- Clarify that reasonable steps' to protect workplace rights do
not require mandatory training courses
- Reform the CSCS system for tradesmen, allowing experienced
tradesmen to use their experience in lieu of a qualification on
government contracts and opening the system up to competition
- Review capital requirements on banks to encourage lending to
the real economy
- Send a remit letter to Britain's financial regulators,
including the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority,
ruling out Net Zero considerations
- Repeal climate-related financial disclosures rules
- Remove the requirement that airports have surface access
strategies' to reduce car traffic, thereby reducing the pressure
on parking and drop-off fees
- Abolish the electric and hybrid vehicle mandates that ban new
pure-internal combustion cars by 2030 and all non Zero-Emission
vehicles, including vans, by 2035
- Allow all HGV trips inside the United Kingdom to be subject
to domestic GB hours
- Prohibit Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
- Provide UK Treasury or British Sovereign Wealth Fund support
to the Welsh Government to get the M4 Relief Road built
- Move the requirement for a new car's first MOT from three
years to four in Great Britain, in line with Northern Ireland and
European norms
- Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
- Replace the GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act that
retains adequacy
- Fully re-legalise the use of Imperial units
- Review all unchanged EU law and repeal or modify all that
which does not match the UK's circumstances
- Automatically repeal all remaining unchanged EU law in 5
years, unless a specific decision is taken to retain it under an
affirmative procedure
- Make quarterly reporting voluntary under Making Tax Digital
- Reduce the legal obligations on Non-Executive Directors for
small and medium enterprises
- Double the number of days land can be used for events,
markets and other activities without planning permission from 28
to 56 days annually
- Grant pavement dining licences automatically and make them
permanent unless revoked, rather than automatically expiring
after 2 years
- Generally permit shops to stay open until 10pm, except on
Sundays
- Repeal board iversity and inclusion rules
- Remove the mandate for Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Abolish Extended Producer Responsibility (the so-called
packaging tax)
- Scrap the preference for the BBC and Channel 4 on YouTube and
other streaming sites
- Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
- Adopt a five-year regulatory sunset on all existing QUANGOs,
requiring them to justify their existence or be automatically
abolished
- Require all new regulations to have a sunset clause within 5
years, with a post-implementation review completed before the
sunset, forcing ministers to actively re-commit to new rule