Nigel Farage has launched the Reform election manifesto which he describes as a "serious plan to reshape the way our country is run" as his party pledges to tackle the "population explosion".
Reform has chosen to title its election document "Our Contract With You", with the leader having previously stated the party believes people associate the term "manifesto" with "lies".
The contract was launched in a run-down community centre in Gurnos in South Wales, as the party sought to drive home "exactly what happens to a country when Labour is in charge".
Reform claims it would "stop the boats" in its first 100 days with a four-point plan that would involve leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), with zero illegal immigrants being resettled in the UK, a new Government department for immigration, and migrants crossing the channel in small boats being returned to France.
The remaining three core pledges ask voters to "imagine no NHS waiting lists"; "imagine good wages for a hard day's work" and "imagine affordable, stable energy bills".
A raft of tax cuts are also promised, including raising the minimum threshold of income tax to £20,000 a year, abolishing stamp duty, and abolishing inheritance tax for all estates under £2 million.
Reform plans to fund these tax cuts by raising £40 billion from reducing the interest paid on Bank of England reserves, but the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said such a measure is "unlikely to raise even half" of that sum.
It came as Rachel Reeves highlighted Labour’s plans to boost investment and set up a national wealth.
The shadow chancellor pledged to hold a global investment summit in the first 100 days of entering government when she hosted members of her British infrastructure council.
Meanwhile Rishi Sunak was returning to the campaign trail, heading to East Yorkshire, the East Midlands and East of England as opinion polls continue to show his party crashing to defeat.
Mr Sunak said he understands peoples’ frustrations but insisted the Conservatives “can win”, after Grant Shapps suggested a Tory election victory is unlikely.
