Leader: Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Deputy Leader: David Campbell Bannerman
- Leave the EU
- Take tax off the minimum wage by raising the tax threshold to £11,500
- A 31% flat tax rate
- Phase out employers’ NI contributions over five years
- Axe government quangos
- Release businesses from 120,000 EU laws
- Replace VAT with a ‘Local Sales Tax’ to help councils and local businesses
- Create one million new skilled jobs with public and private investment in a five-point public works
- programme to provide defence equipment, nuclear power stations, flood and coastal protection, transport infrastructure including high-speed rail lines, and new prisons
- Abolish costly EU schemes such as carbon capping, emissions trading, and landfill taxes
- Amend the UK Takeover Code to prevent foreign interests from gaining control of strategic British companies
