Nigel Farage has vowed to scrap net zero if Reform UK wins the next general election.He said the party would go about making big savings by also getting rid of asylum hotels or houses of multiple occupancy.The Reform UK leader also said “we will scrap the DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion) agenda which is costing the taxpayer up to £7bn a year.”He continued: “I do accept that these proposals are expensive but I genuinely believe that we can pay for it.”
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00:00Of course, you will all be lined up in your droves to say to me,
00:04how on earth can you afford all of this?
00:06How on earth can you afford 5 billion here or 5 billion there?
00:10Almost forgetting that the national debt is now 2.8 trillion.
00:14And that not just the last government, but this one too,
00:17are hopelessly adrift when it comes to government borrowing.
00:21We are going to make big savings.
00:25We will stand here before you in one year's time
00:27and show you the excessive costs that we've taken out of local government.
00:34And at a national level, if we win the next election, we will scrap net zero.
00:41Something that is costing the Exchequer an extraordinary 40 billion plus pounds every year.
00:48There will be no more asylum hotels or houses of multiple occupancy.
00:55People who come here illegally across the Channel or on the back of lorries will not be allowed to stay.
01:03We will scrap the DEI agenda, which is costing the taxpayer up to 7 billion pounds a year throughout the public sector.
01:14And yes, we see considerable savings to be made amongst the quangos.
01:20So yes, I do accept that these proposals, especially the one of lifting to 20,000 pounds,
01:27the level at which people start paying tax,
01:30I accept that it's expensive, but I genuinely believe that we can pay for it
01:34because we're not ideologically tied to the same ideas upon which we believe the Conservative and Labour governments
01:42have gone so wrong over the course of the last few years.