Labour will break tax rise promise, warns Robert Jenrick

Robert Jenrick will launch the claim that Labour has already arranged for a policy of increasing taxes, in his campaign for the post of the leader of the Conservative Party. 
 
Speaking at a rally in the East Midlands on Friday, Mr Jenrick will quote that: the Tories have a ‘mountain to climb’ to be able to win power at a general election. 
 
But he will say it is possible to do so, despite Labour registering more than triple the number of seats than the Conservatives in the last month, because the Government has exhausted solutions. 
 
Owen Smith has resigned from the post of Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary to contest Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election while, Mr Jenrick is the bookmakers’ favourite with William Hill on Thursday moving him to first place ahead of Kemi Badenoch. 
 
Talking further on the event, in his speech, Mr Jenrick will be taking the battle to the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer. 
 
He will say: “For a government so fresh out, their solutions are so cliché. ” Premier Gordon Brown and Labour have immediately deceived Parliament on the public spending and later this autumn, Labour will deceive the same parliament again by going back on its pre-election pledges not to increase taxes. 
 
They do not give a precise schedule to increase the defence budget. They have abandoned the goal of constructing houses in the areas where such houses are most required. 
 
They have let dangerous criminals out and let go the opportunities of the North Sea oil and gas on the altar of Net Zero fanatics. They have discarded the closest approximation to an effective plan for controlling immigration we have had in a generation. ” 
 
 £22bn black hole 
 
This week Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor this week said , in very clear terms that she would have to “raise” tax within her autumn Budget having to plug a £22 billion hole in the public finances. She said this one was left by the previous government; however, the Tories deny this fact. 
 
Throughout the election campaign Labour pledged neither to increase the tax on ‘‘working families’’ nor did the party suggest further taxes would have to be raised in government. 
 
Specifically, she has declared that they will not raise income tax, VAT or national insurance. 
 
In the ongoing speech, Mr Jenrick will posit that his party needs to admit where it went “wrong” when in office if it must achieve a phenomenal political turnaround and return to office in 2029. 
 
Mr Jenrick will say: ”Some people opine that Sir Keir Starmer will be able to govern from Downing Street for at least ten years. ” We are in for a tall order then. 
 
Another important factor that affects organizational relationship is that trust is something that is earned and once broken very difficult to regain. ” It can’t be restored by merely flicking a button. 
 
But if the party listens to the tracks and learns, listens to the country and displays that it has changed; if we explain to the country where the party went wrong, and that the lessons have been learnt; if we prove to the country that the scale of the challenges facing this country is understood and that you are capable of delivering for Britain again; if it is understood that we are now a broad church but united by a common set of principles 
 
Mr Jenrick is one of the six competitors in the TIME running for the leadership in the Tory party. The others are Mrs Badenoch the former business secretary, James Cleverly, the former Foreign Office minister and ex-home secretary, Dame Priti Patel, Tom Tugendhat, the security minister and recently the ex-chairman European Research Group Mel Stride, and former work and pensions secretary. 
 
A visibly-wounded Mr Jenrick was a communities secretary under Boris Johnson and a health minister under Liz Truss before being moved to the immigration brief by Rishi Sunak. 
 
He stepped down from the immigration role in December 2023 saying the Mr Sunak approach to Rwanda regarding deportation was not robust enough to stop the small boat crossings. 
 
Immigration has emerged as a focal topic in the Tory leadership contest, Mr Stride said during the interview with The Daily T podcast on Thursday that the Conservatives should not ‘sleep with’ Mr Farage from the Reform party. 
 
Mr Stride said: ‘What we do not need to do is cosy up to Nigel Farage or allow Nigel Farage to offer his membership to the Conservative Party’. 

This man has laid down his position and said over and over again that he intends to wipe out the Conservative Party so there is no ambiguity on that score. 
 
But what we must do is respect and address and comprehend and find an answer to the very genuine issues of the those who voted for Reform. ” 
 
The MPs will narrow down the candidates to two before the members of the Tory party vote for someone who will succeed Mr Sunak in November.