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Reform promises to increase tax-free personal allowance to £15,000
Robert Jenrick on Reform's proposed increase in tax-free personal allowance
Reform UK is promising to increase the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000, if it wins the next general election.
Robert Jenrick, the party's economic spokesman, has pledged to introduce the tax cut within the first 100 days if he became chancellor saying it would provide "money that people really need right now".
It is seen by Reform insiders as the flagship policy announcement of its conference and perhaps their biggest tax policy between now and the general election.
Asked about two senior Reform aides being investigated by the party following a Channel 4 News undercover broadcast into claims about funding, Jenrick told the BBC Nigel Farage had acted swiftly and they had been suspended.
In undercover filming by Verbatim Investigations Farage's senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform's head of policy James Orr suggested a way around electoral law to secure foreign party donations for the party, one of which would have totalled £500,000.
Electoral law sets out that to be a donor to a UK political party you must be a UK registered voter, or a company registered in the UK.
Farage said on Friday that his party had "done nothing wrong" and had taken "no illegal money. In fact no money was taken at all."
Jukes denied wrongdoing and said he was stepping away from politics "in order to clear my name". Orr told Sky News he would cooperate fully with the party's internal investigation.
Orr is an associate professor of Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity.