Boris has bold plans for first 100 days in power
BORIS Johnson will today say that victory will see him deliver Brexit, cut taxes and launch bold domestic reforms in his first 100 days.
But with just one week to go to polling day, Mr Johnson will stress that his plans to transform the country can only be delivered if he wins a majority.
Conservative aides say the Prime Minister’s first act will be to introduce new laws taking Britain out of the EU by January 31. Days later a post-Brexit budget will cut taxes for hardworking families with reforms to National Insurance contributions.
Soon after, NHS funding will be guaranteed in law to protect the extra £33.9 billion a year being pumped into the service by 2023.
But, Mr Johnson says, families and businesses will be left in limbo if there is another hung parliament.
“This is the most important election in a generation – important because it will define if we go forward as a country or remain stuck, stalled, repeating the same arguments of the last three years with yet more damaging uncertainty,” Mr Johnson will announce.
“In just seven days the British people will have to choose between a working majority government or yet another gridlocked hung Parliament.”
In a campaign blitz in the final stages of the campaign, Mr Johnson will be criss-crossing the country to talk to voters.
He pledged: “If there is a Conservative majority next week, we will get Brexit done.Then… we will get Parliament working on the people’s priorities – delivering 50,000 more nurses and 20,000 more police, creating millions more GP appointments, and taking urgent action on the cost of living.
“But if the Conservatives don’t
get a majority, then on Friday 13th we will have the nightmare of a hung Parliament with Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister propped up by Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP.
“With Corbyn, 2020 will be the year of two chaotic referendums on Brexit and Scottish Independence creating more uncertainty. Nothing else will happen.”
Mr Johnson was endorsed by another former Labour minister last night. Ivan Lewis, who is Jewish and quit Labour over anti-Semitism, is standing as an independent in Bury South but asked voters to pick the Tories instead.
He said: “I’m asking the thousands of voters in Bury South who don’t think Corbyn is fit to be PM to vote Conservative.”
Mr Lewis has become the sixth former Labour MP to endorse the Conservatives.