Philp: Reform’s economic plans ‘don’t add up’

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has criticised Reform UK’s economic agenda, calling Nigel Farage’s past manifesto “a joke”. He said it contained “possibly over £100 billion” of unfunded promises, and accused the party of being “financially irresponsible”. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Nigel Farage's manifesto at the last election was frankly a joke when it came to the economy.

00:04There were tens and tens of billions, possibly over £100 billion of completely unfunded commitments.

00:10That was grossly irresponsible of reform to propose that.

00:14Even today, they are still proposing to increase welfare spending by, for example, removing the two-child benefit cap.

00:21So hard-working taxpayers, who can maybe only afford to have two children themselves,

00:25have to subsidise other people to have five, six or seven children.

00:29That is not only deeply unfair, it is also financially irresponsible.

00:34So it's pretty clear that reforms economic plans at the last election don't add up, and they still don't add up today.

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