PM Pledges Tax Cut For Millions Of Families

David Cameron has promised to raise the 40p tax rate to £50,000 if the Tories win another five years in power.

The pledge, which would help thousands of middle income earners, was among an array of sweeteners offered by Mr Cameron in his last conference speech before the General Election.

He vowed to balance the nation’s books by 2018 so he could deliver tax cuts for “hard-working families” including lifting the tax-free allowance from £10,500 to £12,500.

He said it would mean a tax cut for 30 million people and that those on the national minimum wage working a 30-hour week would pay “nothing, zero, zilch” in income tax. 

He also said he would increase the 40p tax rate from £41,900 to £50,000 – a boost for thousands of middle class families.

Mr Cameron attempted to paint a picture of the Tories as the champion of the ordinary man, of families.

He said he wanted a Britain where there was: “the chance of a job, a home, a good start in life, whoever you are, wherever you’re from. And by the way, you never pull one person up by pulling other people down.”

He added: “We believe in aspiration and helping people get on in life and what’s more, we’re proud of it.”

The Prime Minister went on to make a fierce defence of the NHS making it clear he intended to take the health service back for the Tories after Labour’s attempt to claim it with a £12.5bn spending pledge at the party’s conference last week.

He accused Labour of “spreading complete and utter lies” by suggesting he was selling off the NHS and said: “How dare they suggest I would put that at risk for other people’s children?”

Mr Cameron has often spoken of his first-hand experience of the NHS during the care of his son, Ivan, who died in 2009 at the age of six. 

He said Labour did not understand that the country “can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy”.

The Conservative Party leader also said he would scrap the Human Rights Act, which has allowed the courts in Strasbourg to rule Britain must give prisoners the vote, and introduce a British Bill of Rights.

Mr Cameron’s speech brings to a close a conference which has been tarnished by four UKIP ”defections”, the most significant of which was the MP Mark Reckless.

Pollster Lord Cooper has warned Nigel Farage’s party could win as many as four seats in May – Peter Kellner of  YouGov has put it as high as 10.

Two seats could come before that at the by-elections in Clacton and Rochester triggered by the departures of Mr Reckless and Douglas Carswell, who left the Tories in August.

Mr Cameron warned that a vote for UKIP was a vote for Labour.

He said: “On the 7th of May go to bed with Nigel Farage and wake up with Ed Miliband. I don’t know about you but not a bit of that works for me.”

Source Article from https://uk.news.yahoo.com/david-cameron-set-conference-speech-104036320.html

PM Pledges Tax Cut For Millions Of Families