Promise made: The Conservative campaign manifesto promises that Johnson will build "40 new hospitals.". "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. ', Challenged over the issue, Mr Johnson said: 'I feel a deep sense of anguish for what she has been going through... [But] the people responsible are the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.'. Promise broken: Johnson closed ten fire stations across London and removed 27 fire engines from service. But former Treasury chief secretary Greg Hands warned against a 'Corbyn-lite' approach of borrowing in order to increase public spending. Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent think-tank, said the spending proposals represented a move towards more funding for public services as a whole, but many areas would not feel much relief. “We will initially go up to £9,500 in the first stage but of course the plan is to go up to £12,000. Self-employed workers will also benefit from the move through a rise in the Lower Profits Limit, which will also kick in at £9,500 from April next year. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). In 2012, Johnson sent a list of nine promises to every household in London, labelled his "nine-point plan for a Greater London." However, he noted many Tory MPs had yet to declare who they were backing. Mr Johnson said the huge tax giveaway was proof the Tories want “do more to help people on low incomes with the cost of living, to put more money into their pockets”. He insisted the buses had been taken off the streets by "health and safety fiends." The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The promised old-fashioned bus conductors were never re-hired due to the fact that Oyster and contactless cards made their job obsolete. Average vehicle delays in central London increased by 20% at peak time in the mornings and 38% at … Campaign sources say Johnson was attracted to the idea, first raised by former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, of raising the rate in line with the starting threshold for income tax. Promise made: The Conservative manifesto states that there will be no new tax rises in the coming parliament and promises to reduce taxes for lower earners. Vowed to substantially reduce the soaring bill for HS2 but signalled he would not scrap the project. He was grilled in a Q&A after a stump speech to factory workers. Defied all general election convention by revealing he will launch his manifesto for power on a Sunday for the first time in history. Ms Rudd, leader of the centrist One Nation Conservative Caucus group and an influential voice on the Remain-supporting wing of the party, told BBC Radio 4's Today that Jeremy Hunt was "the best shot we have at breaking this impasse" on Brexit. That is why we have set out clear rules that will keep borrowing and debt under control,” Finance Minister Sajid Javid said in a document accompanying the launch. View our online Press Pack. He suggested he would take anyone earning £12,000 or less out of national insurance. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Boris Johnson has promised big tax cuts and faster broadband if he becomes PM, Chancellor Philip Hammond has asked the Tory leadership candidates for sensible spending plans, Tory leadership contender Rory Stewart steps up brutal attacks on frontrunner Boris Johnson, Mr Johnson was accused of trashing Britain’s hard-won economic recovery, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Brexit was the sole focus of his party’s platform loss. Play it now. Launching his campaign for leader on Monday, Mr Hunt said the challenge of Brexit called for an "experienced, serious leader", not "empty rhetoric". which cost taxpayers some £20,000 (R378,000). Whereas candidates in the past would have only needed two MPs supporting them, senior Tories decided to change the rules earlier this month in a bid to speed up the contest. Following the trip, which cost taxpayers some £20,000 (R378,000), Johnson told Conservative MPs that he would not scrap expansion at Heathrow. Announced a bumper package of measures to help ‘Generation Rent’ as he promised to finally bring an end to the scourge ‘no fault evictions,’ a new scheme to allow tenants to transfer their deposits when they move homes and a pledge to build one million homes by 2025. But Michael Gove, one of 11 to have said they plan to run, has faced calls to drop out of the race after he admitted using cocaine several times more than 20 years ago. Promise made: Johnson's new manifesto promises to cut down on strike action on public transport, saying that unions will be forced to "provide minimum service operates during transport strikes". ", Income of up to £8,632: Individuals pay 0%, £8,632 - £12,500: 12% (National Insurance only), £12,500 - £50,000: 32% (Income tax at 20%, NI at 12%), £50,000 - £100,000: 42% (Income tax at 40%, NI at 2%), (The Scottish Government sets its own income tax rates). Johnson described the pledge as "do or die" and said there "were no circumstances" in which his government would allow Brexit to be delayed for a third time, with aides even briefing that he would risk arrest rather than let it happen. 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Checkers is testing a 1-hour-delivery online shopping service in Sandton and Cape Town – and for now it is free, TAKE A LOOK: Inside South Africa's biggest mall, where kids have their own cinema with a giant tube slide inside, Blueberries are now being harvested in the Limpopo bush – and exported across the world, This aerial photo shows how much of Saxonwold the Guptas owned, We tried Ricoffy’s new iced coffee – and even the coffee snobs liked it, Sales of Beacon chocolate shot up thanks to new wrappers. Promise made: Johnson repeatedly denied he had any plans to cut the numbers of fire engines or fire stations, telling the London Assembly in 2010 that there were "no plans" to remove engines. The final two will be put to the 160,000 or so members of the wider Conservative Party in a vote from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later. The PM announced he would raise the income threshold at which workers start paying National Insurance from £8,632 to £9,500 from April 2020. The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, which questioned Mr Johnson's plans for the better off, said raising the NI threshold was 'probably the best thing one can do through the tax system to help low earners, though even this policy offers most benefit to higher earners'. £8,424 - £46,350 - pay 12% National Insurance, More than £46,350 - 2% National Insurance, £6,205 to £8,424  - £2.95 per week “Let’s go carbon-neutral by 2050 and Corbyn-neutral by Christmas,” he said to appreciative chuckles from the crowd. Boris Johnson has pledged to cut income tax bills for people earning more than £50,000 a year if he wins the race to succeed Theresa May as prime minister. What Boris Johnson's Britain will look like: What to expect now that the PM has won a mandate for Tory manifesto promising Brexit by January 31, a five-year tax … Boris Johnson. She added Mr Gove had been "very candid about having made a mistake and he is right to say people shouldn't be defined by the worst mistakes they have made". “Outside of schools and hospitals, there is not going to be much to go around,” he told BBC television. Boris Johnson has pledged to cut income tax bills for people earning more than £50,000 a year if he wins the race to succeed Theresa May as prime minister. Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368. Paul Johnson, from think tank the Institute For Fiscal Studies, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme higher rate taxpayers would receive a "quite significant tax cut" under Mr Johnson's plans - … London taxpayers did not receive a £445 (R8,000) tax cut. 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On an officer per capita basis, it would actually leave Britain's policing level 6% lower than it was before Johnson's party entered Downing Street, according to the independent organisation Full Fact. Unveiling the Conservative Party’s manifesto, PM Boris Johnson promises tax cuts and to deliver Brexit before Christmas. If you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. We pay for videos too. The show, hosted by Julie Etchingham at 8pm on ITV1, peaked at 7.3million viewers — beating all competition with 32.3 per cent audience share. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Speaking on Monday at an event in the Mansion House, City of London, he said that he had written last week to every candidate to commit to keep national debt falling each year if they become Prime Minister, and not let the deficit rise as a share of national income.