During a wide-ranging speech, Farage also said his party’s “biggest aspiration” was to lift the salary level at which people start paying income tax to £20,000.
“These proposals are expensive but we genuinely believe we can pay for it,” he said.
He said the measures would be paid for by scrapping net-zero climate measures, stopping hotel accommodation for asylum seekers, ending diversity and equality initiatives in the public sector and cutting the number of quangos – bodies which are funded by taxpayers but not directly controlled by central government.
The Reform UK leader said removing the two-child benefit cap, which would cost an estimated £3.5bn, was “not a silver bullet” but would help families.
On making tax breaks for married people more generous, he said he was “not moralising” but argued that “making marriage a little bit more important” was “the right thing to do,” as it gave children “the best chance of success”.
