Tories shift into defence mode with warnings of ‘Labour for a generation’

The Conservatives have moved into defence mode with just over two weeks remaining of the General Election campaign, urging voters not to hand Labour a massive majority.

Following the unveiling of Reform UK’s pledges at an event yesterday, a Tory spokesperson said a vote for Nigel Farage’s party would mean a ‘generation under Labour’.

Michael Gove has also accused Labour of planning to hike up council tax if they take power at the July 4 election.

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Farage launched Reform’s ‘Contract with You’ in South Wales yesterday – and denied it was a manifesto, saying people had come to associate that word with ‘lie’.

But the Institute for Fiscal Studies economic think tank said the party’s sums ‘do not add up’.

The total cost of all the policies was £141 billion, around 30 times as much as Labour’s plans, which Reform said would be paid for largely by scrapping the government’s net zero targets.