Rishi Sunak to review leadership campaign pledges

Rishi Sunak volition reappraisal the pledges helium made during his summertime Tory enactment campaign, No 10 has said.

The premier curate volition analyse "whether present is the close clip to bring them forward," his spokeswoman said.

Mr Sunak mislaid to Liz Truss successful a ballot of Tory members - but was selected to regenerate her by Tory MPs erstwhile her premiership fell apart.

He announced dozens of policies during his summertime campaign, including taxation cuts.

But his spokeswoman said the economical "context" had changed since the promises were made.

"We request to instrumentality immoderate clip to marque definite what is deliverable and what is possible," she added.

Unlike his summertime campaign, Mr Sunak did not marque immoderate argumentation pledges during the four-day contention to regenerate Ms Truss arsenic premier curate past month.

His earlier run promises included a pledge to scrap the 5% VAT complaint connected household vigor bills, and little the basal complaint of income taxation by 4% earlier the extremity of the adjacent parliament.

Mr Sunak besides promised to support April's 1.25p successful the lb emergence to National Insurance - presently due to beryllium reversed connected Sunday successful the aftermath of Ms Truss's mini-budget successful September.

He besides pledged to spot an yearly headdress connected the fig of refugees the UK accepts, tighten asylum qualification criteria, and withhold assistance from countries that won't instrumentality migrant returns.

He has besides restored the prohibition connected shale state fracking successful England that was lifted by Ms Truss. During the summer, helium said helium supported fracking wherever projects person section consent.

The argumentation reappraisal comes arsenic Mr Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt see taxation increases and spending cuts up of a fund connected 17 November.

Ahead of the statement, the Treasury has been informing that across-the-board taxation increases volition beryllium required to guarantee the authorities meets its medium-term targets connected spending and debt.

Reports person suggested Mr Hunt could widen a frost connected income taxation thresholds, arsenic good arsenic the windfall taxation connected lipid and state firms.

Ministers person besides not ruled retired real-terms cuts to pensions and benefits by raising them beneath the complaint of inflation, a determination that could prevention billions.

The authorities is considering delaying the instauration of a £86,000 lifetime headdress connected societal attraction costs owed to use successful England from October 2023, a authorities root told the BBC.

The program includes a much generous means-test for radical applying to their section assembly for fiscal support.

Groups representing section authorities person been calling for a hold to the instauration of the cap, with warnings of staffing and fiscal pressures connected services.