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15/04/2015
Farage Announces UKIP's Election Policies
Nigel Farage has launched the UKIP 2015 General Election manifesto.
Announcing their policies Mr Farage said UKIP was the only party with "fully costed plans, which have been verified by independent economic think tank, The Centre for Economic and Business Research".
The party's key policies include:
• Introducing a points-based immigration system
• Funding 6,000 new jobs for armed forces veterans, in the police, the prison service and at the UK border
• Cutting foreign aid by £9bn
• Scrapping hospital parking charges
• A new 30p tax band for those earning between £45,000 and £55,000 a year
• Removing stamp duty on the first £250,000 for new homes built on brownfield sites
• A cut in business rates for small businesses
Speaking at the launch event in Doncaster, Mr Farage said: "Political party manifestos are usually filled with arbitrary, over-ambitious targets and pledges to some special interest group here or there. UKIP is different.
"On the major issues of the day – immigration, the economy, our health service and living standards – the establishment parties have repeatedly and knowingly raised the expectations of the public, only to let us down, time and time again.
"In many ways, this is where UKIP came from: a feeling that successive governments were no longer representing the will of the British people.
A full description of the party's key policies can be read here.
(MH/CD)
Announcing their policies Mr Farage said UKIP was the only party with "fully costed plans, which have been verified by independent economic think tank, The Centre for Economic and Business Research".
The party's key policies include:
• Introducing a points-based immigration system
• Funding 6,000 new jobs for armed forces veterans, in the police, the prison service and at the UK border
• Cutting foreign aid by £9bn
• Scrapping hospital parking charges
• A new 30p tax band for those earning between £45,000 and £55,000 a year
• Removing stamp duty on the first £250,000 for new homes built on brownfield sites
• A cut in business rates for small businesses
Speaking at the launch event in Doncaster, Mr Farage said: "Political party manifestos are usually filled with arbitrary, over-ambitious targets and pledges to some special interest group here or there. UKIP is different.
"On the major issues of the day – immigration, the economy, our health service and living standards – the establishment parties have repeatedly and knowingly raised the expectations of the public, only to let us down, time and time again.
"In many ways, this is where UKIP came from: a feeling that successive governments were no longer representing the will of the British people.
A full description of the party's key policies can be read here.
(MH/CD)
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