Robert Jenrick under investigation by Metropolitan Police re possible illegal foreign donation for failed Tory leadership bid.
Jenrick’s wife Michal Berkner lawyer for the donor, was warned the £40k actually came from a US fraudster. Where's the noise?
#BBCBreakfast#r4today
Robert Jenrick admits Reform UK will NOT deport foreign nationals living in social housing
Trevor Phillips showed him Restore Britain's deportation plans and was clear "YOU DON'T AGREE WITH RESTORE'S POLICIES"
There are approx. half a MILLION social homes currently occupied by foreign nationals in the UK
Deport them all and give those homes to British people
Reform are just weak sauce
It's time to Restore Britain
If you look at this at the upper end there's another problem.
Imagine someone earning £65k with £10k of overtime. Take home pay under this rule will be £58k.
They are given a £2k payrise (which takes them above the upper limit). Now they no longer qualify, their take-home pay drops to £55k.
£2k payrise triggers a £5k tax rise. That's a new 250% tax rate in the system!
While it makes for a good headline, this is a terrible policy for several reasons.
1. It would create a 'cliff edge' at £75,000, which means many people going from earning £75k to £76k would get hit by a tax bill that's bigger than their raise. This will hugely deter people from earning more.
2. It would be exceptionally easy to game to facilitate tax avoidance. Nothing would stop unscrupulous employers and and employees agreeing that the regular pay is very low, but an hour of overtime is paid (say) 100x ordinary wages. All of a sudden, the whole wage is tax-free.
3. It would be unfair between professions where hours are contracted and those it's not. The professional services sector, for example, rarely pays overtime. This would incentivise those professions to move to clock-punching: forcing professions to change their culture to suit government.
4. By targeting hours, it gives a tax break to work that takes longer. But we should be incentivising higher wages through higher productivity, not lower wages on longer hours.
5. Self-employed people and people who work multiple jobs wouldn't benefit from this. For absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Just cut taxes generally. Don't dream up schemes that make our tax system even more complicated and even more distortionary just to get a quick headline.
If you work at the Heinz factory near Wigan, do an hour and a half overtime every day, you’ll be *£1,000* a year better off.
Reform will make work pay again.
West Ham away is going to be on a Wednesday morning 8am on Microsoft teams and you’ll need 1765 points to receive the log in and you’ll be assigned a police officer.
#Millwall
Farage's company Thorn in the Side. Cash in bank 2023 -£291,328. I'm a Celebrity fee of £1.5m paid into bank 23/24. Cash in bank 2024 - £1,707,967. £1.4m house purchase May 2024. In 2025 cash in bank £1,967,406. Was not paid from I'm a Celebrity fee.
🤥 Shall we do numbers 📝 @Nigel_Farage? Considering all your KNOWN earnings in 2023/24 and using the balance sheet of your personal company, where allegedly most of your stuff comes through, you would have just £100k left to pay corp tax, stamp duty, legal, bills etc.. 🤔🚨