Their blueprint for independent Britain
FINANCE BILL: This would abolish the 5 per cent rate of VAT on household energy bills. Paid for by savings from the UK’s contributions to the EU budget.
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FUNDING TARGET) BILL: Requirement that by the next general election, the NHS receives a £100million per week realterms cash transfusion on top of current plans. Paid for by savings from the UK’s contributions to EU budget.
ASYLUM AND IMMIGRATION CONTROL BILL: Ends the automatic right of all EU citizens to enter the UK by the next election. Criminals refused entry and a ‘nondiscriminatory’ Australian points-based system, based on skills, introduced for those wishing to enter from inside and outside the EU.
EUROPEAN UNION LAW (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL: This would end the European Court of Justice’s control over national security, allow ministers to remove EU citizens whose presence is not conducive to the public good – including terrorists and serious criminals – and end the growing use of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to overrule UK law.
FREE TRADE BILL: The UK would leave the EU’s ‘common commercial policy’. That would restore the UK Government’s power to set its own trade policy. UK would take back seat on the World Trade Organization.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ACT 1972 (REPEAL) BILL: Ensures the European Communities Act 1972 – the legal basis for supremacy of EU law – is repealed. EU Treaties will cease to form part of UK law and European Court’s jurisdiction will end. UK would cease to contribute to the EU budget. EU law to be transferred into domestic law with Parliament choosing what to keep, remove or amend.