Boris Johnson is to hand voters a windfall by ending the benefits freeze as part of a multi-billion pound package of Election spending promises which has caused mounting alarm in the Treasury.<\/p>\n
And a new Mail on Sunday poll has placed the Prime Minister 12 points clear of Jeremy Corbyn, with the Tories on 40 per cent and Labour on 28.<\/p>\n
Under plans being announced today, around ten million people will benefit from a rise of 1.7 per cent in welfare payments \u2013 the first hike since April 2015 \u2013 as Mr Johnson moves to blunt Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s main line of attack in the Election against the so-called \u2018callous\u2019 Tories making cuts.<\/p>\n
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Boris Johnson is to hand voters a windfall by ending the benefits freeze as part of a multi-billion pound package of Election spending promises which has caused mounting alarm in the Treasury<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAnd a new Mail on Sunday poll has placed the Prime Minister 12 points clear of Jeremy Corbyn, with the Tories on 40 per cent and Labour on 28.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Pensioners will also see their income rise by nearly four per cent in the biggest boost they have received for eight years.<\/p>\n
The ballooning welfare bill comes as Chancellor Sajid Javid has privately expressed concern that the Tory manifesto is set to contain the most expensive set of policies in history, drastically reducing his room for manoeuvre to deliver tax cuts for traditional Tory voters.<\/p>\n
Where’s BoJo? He needs unleashing!<\/h3>\n\nThe slow start to the Tory Election campaign has caused disquiet in the Cabinet, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.<\/p>\n
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held rallies yesterday in Swindon and Bristol, but Boris Johnson was not seen in public \u2013 beyond a photograph of him watching England\u2019s Rugby World Cup final defeat.<\/p>\n
While Mr Corbyn has already given one major speech, Mr Johnson has stuck to pre-recorded broadcast interviews.<\/p>\n
One Minister lamented: \u2018We\u2019ve handed them the weekend \u2013 where is Boris?<\/p>\n
Why isn\u2019t he out there \u2013 he needs to be unleashed.\u2019 Mr Johnson is expected to kickstart his campaign after Parliament is dissolved on Wednesday with a tour of the Midlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe move is understood to be driven by Mr Johnson\u2019s most influential adviser, Dominic Cummings. He believes the Tories\u2019 only path to a majority lies in persuading Brexit-supporting Labour voters in Northern and working-class communities to switch sides \u2013 by ditching the last remnants of the austerity drive launched by David Cameron\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
The \u00a35 billion-a-year cost of the benefits and pensions rise comes on top of the extra \u00a334 billion a year which has been promised to the NHS by 2024; \u00a313.4 billion for 20,000 extra police officers and reversing cuts to school budgets; and billions more to extend free childcare for three and four-year-olds and to continue the freeze on fuel duty.<\/p>\n
Mr Johnson has also promised to raise the threshold at which people start paying national insurance and raise the level at which the 40p rate of income tax kicks in from \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000. Cuts to stamp duty are also being considered.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Javid has argued in meetings with MPs that he does not want the hard work of the last ten years to be \u2018thrown away on his watch\u2019. He told colleagues that it was essential for the Tories to produce a responsible manifesto which \u2018firmly outlined and won the argument for fiscally credibility\u2019.<\/p>\n
The state pension rise of 3.9 per cent, which will benefit the population demographic most likely to vote, will take effect in April as the result of the Government\u2019s triple lock system, under which pensioners receive a minimum of a 2.5 per cent rise and a maximum of whatever is higher out of the average rise in earnings or prices.<\/p>\n
April\u2019s rise means that the basic State pension will rise by \u00a3344 a year and be \u00a31,900 higher in cash terms compared to 2010.<\/p>\n
The inflation-linked rise in benefits will affect everyone who is in receipt of Universal Credit, Jobseekers\u2019 Allowance, Income Support, Child Benefit and tax credits.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nYesterday, the Treasury also approved an additional \u00a370 million in funding for counter-terrorism for the next financial year in a move that is expected to be announced by Home Secretary Priti Patel next week as part of a major law and order policy blitz. Tory strategists are acutely aware that voters in the lower income social brackets are twice as likely to support Nigel Farage\u2019s Brexit Party, and are keen for them not to fall into Labour\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n
Mr Cummings used his last meeting with Government advisers before they hit the campaign trail last week to warn them that \u2018people out there are hurting\u2019 and \u2018they haven\u2019t had a pay rise in ten years\u2019.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018Don\u2019t look at it through the eyes of London commentators and people like us and our friends who are reasonably comfortable. People out there are still suffering from the financial crash.\u2019<\/p>\n
\nOpinium\/Observer poll<\/h3>\n\nConservative – 42% (16-point lead)<\/p>\n
Labour – 26%<\/p>\n
Lberal Democrats – 16%<\/p>\n
Brexit Party – 9%<\/p>\n
Green Party – 2%<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Completed\u00a030 Oct\u20131 Nov)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHowever, other advisers on the campaign fear that by promising to \u2018turn on the spending taps\u2019, the party is prevented from being able to highlight the fiscal profligacy of a Corbyn government, setting up a debt burden for future generations. Last night, one Cabinet Minister told The Mail on Sunday: \u2018We must trumpet our handling of the economy over the last ten years without rubbing people\u2019s faces in it.<\/p>\n
\u2018At the same time, if we are spending all this money, get Boris out there saying it and taking credit for it. The worst thing would be seeming to be ashamed of our own giveaways.\u2019<\/p>\n
This newspaper has learned Ministers were buoyed by a polling briefing presented by Conservative HQ and led by Australian strategist Isaac Levido last month.<\/p>\n
Mr Levido, who was at Sir Lynton Crosby\u2019s side for David Cameron\u2019s successful 2015 campaign, has worked on Republican Senate campaigns in America and earlier this year headed up the Australian Liberal Party\u2019s election effort.<\/p>\n
Despite the party having been behind in the polls in Australia for three years, his aggressive campaign \u2013playing on voters\u2019 fears of Labor\u2019s economic competence \u2013 was successful.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMr Johnson has also promised to raise the threshold at which people start paying national insurance and raise the level at which the 40p rate of income tax kicks in from \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
His presentation showed that the British Labour Party has lost as much as 40 per cent of its 2017 support in some parts of the Brexit- supporting North and North East.<\/p>\n
While the Tories\u2019 sky-high 2017 vote share failed to materialise into a majority, the strategists said currently there was only limited signs of loss of support to the Brexit Party and Liberal Democrats in some key marginals.<\/p>\n
One Minister present said: \u2018In some places if we can stand still or cauterise 2017 losses, the catastrophic Labour drop will get us over the line.<\/p>\n
\u2018The scale of their collapse is phenomenal.\u2019<\/p>\n
source:dailymail<\/p>\n
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The slow start to the Tory Election campaign has caused disquiet in the Cabinet, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.<\/p>\n
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held rallies yesterday in Swindon and Bristol, but Boris Johnson was not seen in public \u2013 beyond a photograph of him watching England\u2019s Rugby World Cup final defeat.<\/p>\n
While Mr Corbyn has already given one major speech, Mr Johnson has stuck to pre-recorded broadcast interviews.<\/p>\n
One Minister lamented: \u2018We\u2019ve handed them the weekend \u2013 where is Boris?<\/p>\n
Why isn\u2019t he out there \u2013 he needs to be unleashed.\u2019 Mr Johnson is expected to kickstart his campaign after Parliament is dissolved on Wednesday with a tour of the Midlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The move is understood to be driven by Mr Johnson\u2019s most influential adviser, Dominic Cummings. He believes the Tories\u2019 only path to a majority lies in persuading Brexit-supporting Labour voters in Northern and working-class communities to switch sides \u2013 by ditching the last remnants of the austerity drive launched by David Cameron\u2019s government.<\/p>\n
The \u00a35 billion-a-year cost of the benefits and pensions rise comes on top of the extra \u00a334 billion a year which has been promised to the NHS by 2024; \u00a313.4 billion for 20,000 extra police officers and reversing cuts to school budgets; and billions more to extend free childcare for three and four-year-olds and to continue the freeze on fuel duty.<\/p>\n
Mr Johnson has also promised to raise the threshold at which people start paying national insurance and raise the level at which the 40p rate of income tax kicks in from \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000. Cuts to stamp duty are also being considered.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Javid has argued in meetings with MPs that he does not want the hard work of the last ten years to be \u2018thrown away on his watch\u2019. He told colleagues that it was essential for the Tories to produce a responsible manifesto which \u2018firmly outlined and won the argument for fiscally credibility\u2019.<\/p>\n
The state pension rise of 3.9 per cent, which will benefit the population demographic most likely to vote, will take effect in April as the result of the Government\u2019s triple lock system, under which pensioners receive a minimum of a 2.5 per cent rise and a maximum of whatever is higher out of the average rise in earnings or prices.<\/p>\n
April\u2019s rise means that the basic State pension will rise by \u00a3344 a year and be \u00a31,900 higher in cash terms compared to 2010.<\/p>\n
The inflation-linked rise in benefits will affect everyone who is in receipt of Universal Credit, Jobseekers\u2019 Allowance, Income Support, Child Benefit and tax credits.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nYesterday, the Treasury also approved an additional \u00a370 million in funding for counter-terrorism for the next financial year in a move that is expected to be announced by Home Secretary Priti Patel next week as part of a major law and order policy blitz. Tory strategists are acutely aware that voters in the lower income social brackets are twice as likely to support Nigel Farage\u2019s Brexit Party, and are keen for them not to fall into Labour\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n
Mr Cummings used his last meeting with Government advisers before they hit the campaign trail last week to warn them that \u2018people out there are hurting\u2019 and \u2018they haven\u2019t had a pay rise in ten years\u2019.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018Don\u2019t look at it through the eyes of London commentators and people like us and our friends who are reasonably comfortable. People out there are still suffering from the financial crash.\u2019<\/p>\n
Opinium\/Observer poll<\/h3>\n\nConservative – 42% (16-point lead)<\/p>\n
Labour – 26%<\/p>\n
Lberal Democrats – 16%<\/p>\n
Brexit Party – 9%<\/p>\n
Green Party – 2%<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Completed\u00a030 Oct\u20131 Nov)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHowever, other advisers on the campaign fear that by promising to \u2018turn on the spending taps\u2019, the party is prevented from being able to highlight the fiscal profligacy of a Corbyn government, setting up a debt burden for future generations. Last night, one Cabinet Minister told The Mail on Sunday: \u2018We must trumpet our handling of the economy over the last ten years without rubbing people\u2019s faces in it.<\/p>\n
\u2018At the same time, if we are spending all this money, get Boris out there saying it and taking credit for it. The worst thing would be seeming to be ashamed of our own giveaways.\u2019<\/p>\n
This newspaper has learned Ministers were buoyed by a polling briefing presented by Conservative HQ and led by Australian strategist Isaac Levido last month.<\/p>\n
Mr Levido, who was at Sir Lynton Crosby\u2019s side for David Cameron\u2019s successful 2015 campaign, has worked on Republican Senate campaigns in America and earlier this year headed up the Australian Liberal Party\u2019s election effort.<\/p>\n
Despite the party having been behind in the polls in Australia for three years, his aggressive campaign \u2013playing on voters\u2019 fears of Labor\u2019s economic competence \u2013 was successful.<\/p>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMr Johnson has also promised to raise the threshold at which people start paying national insurance and raise the level at which the 40p rate of income tax kicks in from \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
His presentation showed that the British Labour Party has lost as much as 40 per cent of its 2017 support in some parts of the Brexit- supporting North and North East.<\/p>\n
While the Tories\u2019 sky-high 2017 vote share failed to materialise into a majority, the strategists said currently there was only limited signs of loss of support to the Brexit Party and Liberal Democrats in some key marginals.<\/p>\n
One Minister present said: \u2018In some places if we can stand still or cauterise 2017 losses, the catastrophic Labour drop will get us over the line.<\/p>\n
\u2018The scale of their collapse is phenomenal.\u2019<\/p>\n
source:dailymail<\/p>\n
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Conservative – 42% (16-point lead)<\/p>\n
Labour – 26%<\/p>\n
Lberal Democrats – 16%<\/p>\n
Brexit Party – 9%<\/p>\n
Green Party – 2%<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Completed\u00a030 Oct\u20131 Nov)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n However, other advisers on the campaign fear that by promising to \u2018turn on the spending taps\u2019, the party is prevented from being able to highlight the fiscal profligacy of a Corbyn government, setting up a debt burden for future generations. Last night, one Cabinet Minister told The Mail on Sunday: \u2018We must trumpet our handling of the economy over the last ten years without rubbing people\u2019s faces in it.<\/p>\n \u2018At the same time, if we are spending all this money, get Boris out there saying it and taking credit for it. The worst thing would be seeming to be ashamed of our own giveaways.\u2019<\/p>\n This newspaper has learned Ministers were buoyed by a polling briefing presented by Conservative HQ and led by Australian strategist Isaac Levido last month.<\/p>\n Mr Levido, who was at Sir Lynton Crosby\u2019s side for David Cameron\u2019s successful 2015 campaign, has worked on Republican Senate campaigns in America and earlier this year headed up the Australian Liberal Party\u2019s election effort.<\/p>\n Despite the party having been behind in the polls in Australia for three years, his aggressive campaign \u2013playing on voters\u2019 fears of Labor\u2019s economic competence \u2013 was successful.<\/p>\n Mr Johnson has also promised to raise the threshold at which people start paying national insurance and raise the level at which the 40p rate of income tax kicks in from \u00a350,000 to \u00a380,000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n His presentation showed that the British Labour Party has lost as much as 40 per 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