“As regards Kemi, look, we could tell she was making it up. She lives in a fantasy of her own making. She made up that she got a degree offer from an American university for her CV, she claims she is going to be the next prime minister…

I'm announcing today that under a Reform government, if you spend more than half an hour waiting for HMRC to answer your call, you will get a £30 credit off your tax bill.

Frankly, it is offensive to working people and I have had enough.

“It was obviously very, very embarrassing for Kemi Badenoch. My advice, if you go and visit a foreign leader, is don’t make up a pack of lies about what they say,”

And to make sure that the staff actually hit their targets, we'll tie the pay of senior HMRC officials to their customer service performance.

So, we will give HMRC a big incentive to actually provide proper customer service.

“Let white van men choose the vehicle that they want to drive for their businesses,”

Those who need them, under a Reform government, will continue to receive them but those people who are shirking, who are taking advantage, they will be reassessed and they will be helped back into the workplace.

They'll work to clean up high streets and parks, to beautify neglected places, to carry out minor repairs to staff libraries and community centres, to perform many other tasks from the list that we've published today.

The British taxpayer is acting as the welfare state for the world. That's unfair, we all know it.

The state must be there to support people who need it, but dumping our young people onto welfare isn’t compassion; it’s neglect.

The public have been crying out for this change for decades.

Forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral.

Let me speak very plainly. If people who are capable of work refuse, then they’ll get nothing. That’s fair.

dumping our young people onto welfare isn’t compassion; it’s neglect.

We will not pretend this is painless.

He won't, he can't, he will not rule out a death tax.

I could not look the British taxpayer in the eye and impose a tax - another tax - before I had stopped sending taxpayers' money to rich countries overseas.

rule out this tax, end the uncertainty, end the worry today

We’re not backing down.

That, I’m afraid, is playing politics with the safety of politicians, and I suspect that’s because they don’t like the views the Reform politicians take forward.

I do question whether this would have happened to someone with different political views.

Frankly I find it astonishing that, just a short period after he was elected to Parliament, the authorities, the government, chose to massively downgrade his security.

The government chose not to give Nigel the security that he needed. They now have, as a result of Ann Widdecombe’s appalling murder, offered him a meeting.