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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has sights on 2029 election as he launches manifesto aimed at Tory voters but had his policies trashed by economists and financial experts

Policies include personal tax cuts and life imprisonment for drug dealers in ‘contract’ with British public

Voters will see through the thin prospectus Farage offered today, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

From economy to transport, health to housing, and immigration – how do the main pledges in party’s ‘contract’ with electorate stack up?

Grant Shapps is running. The Tory MP has held what seems like every ministerial post possible and is famous in Westminster for his command of spreadsheets and data – in other words, for tracking the views and intentions of his fellow Tory MPs. He is ready for the battle ahead.

Watch as Nigel Farage launches Reform UK’s election manifesto on Monday 17 June.

In the two weeks since I announced I would be standing as a candidate, we have electrified the debate about Britain’s future and breathed life into this zombie General Election campaign.

Will Reform become the opposition in a new Parliament? And how likely is it Brexiteer Mr Farage will win a seat? All your questions answered in our exclusive Q&A with The Independent’s political editor David Maddox

Labour is the leading party in most polls

‘I think he lost it because the law did nothing to prevent ballot harvesting,’ the Reform UK leader added

StClair-Armstrong, 71, who was supposed to contest against business secretary Kemi Badenoch in North West Essex, said he made the comment ‘out of frustration’