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Reform Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n
Robert Jenrick<\/a> has vowed to \u201creindustrialise\u201d Britain by slashing the cost of energy to help the nation\u2019s key industries. Reform\u2019s<\/a> \u201cshadow chancellor\u201d told the Express: \u201cWe are losing our steel, our car manufacturing, our glass, our ceramics, our chemical industries. There are millions of good jobs that rely on these industries<\/a>, and they simply will not survive if we continue to have energy prices that are five or six time higher than the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n A Reform government would also aim to save \u201ctens of billions of pounds\u201d by cutting waste, net zero subsidies and spending on asylum seekers, with the proceeds used partly for tax cuts, he said. Mr Jenrick, a former Tory cabinet minister, became the biggest name so far to defect to Reform, when he switched to Nigel Farage<\/a>\u2019s party in January. He\u2019s since been named Mr Farage\u2019s candidate to become Chancellor.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> Nigel Farage makes major pledge at Reform press conference <\/a><\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong> GMB’s Ed Balls humiliated as he’s shut down by Robert Jenrick three times <\/a><\/p>\n The Nottinghamshire MP insists he felt immediately at home, saying: \u201cI have really enjoyed working with Nigel. He\u2019s got bags of energy and he\u2019s got real conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n His plan for government involves working closely with Richard Tice<\/a>, who will lead an expanded business, trade and energy department if Reform win power, to axe \u201cgreen\u201d policies championed by Labour Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, and expand the use of nuclear power and fossil fuels from the North Sea.<\/p>\n Mr Jenrick said: \u201cWe are certainly going to scrap the net zero madness, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s impoverishing people and it\u2019s deindustrialising our country.<\/p>\n \u201cA Reform government will have one simple goal for our energy policy, which is energy abundance.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want cheap and reliable energy for consumers, who are finding life tough at the moment, and for businesses, so we can reindustrialise.\u201d<\/p>\n Reform are often portrayed as a right-wing party but their position on the economy, at least, is more nuanced than this suggests and they are not wedded to free market economics. Mr Jenrick said Reform would intervene to protect \u201cstrategic industries\u201d if needed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do see the connection between economics and security. There are some strategic industries that we need to ensure we preserve and set on a course for future success. Steel is one of those.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we will be very judicious in the way we intervene. We don\u2019t believe in picking winners or a return to the industrial strategy of the 1970s. But most successful economies today do have an industrial strategy, whether that is Singapore, the United States or others.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd there is a role for the state to work with those industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Covid<\/a> crisis contributed to the UK\u2019s huge public sector debt of \u00a32,923.7 billion and rising, leaving Chancellor Rachel Reeves<\/a> little room for manoeuvre – though Reform argues her decisions have made the state of the public finances even worse.<\/p>\n Mr Jenrick insists he will be able to find money to spend, including by axing \u201cnet zero\u201d subisidies for heat pumps and electric vehicles, and by cutting the cost of the asylum system.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to cut waste. There\u2019s billions and billions of pounds being wasted right now on priorities that are not those of the British people.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are spending billions on giving welfare to migrants. Billions on hotels for illegal immigrants. Billions on net zero subsidies.\u201d<\/p>\n He said that Reform has already identified \u00a313 billion that could be saved from Ed Milliband\u2019s energy department. He continued: \u201cAnd in the next Parliament that will be tens of billions of pounds. So if we can find those savings, take those difficult decisions, then yes we can bring down people\u2019s bills, and responsibly cut taxes and invest in the actual priorities of the British people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick (Image: Getty) Robert Jenrick has vowed to \u201creindustrialise\u201d Britain by slashing the cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,9890,11508,34336,386,24488,16,237564,15],"class_list":["post-827034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-industrial-strategy","tag-politics-section","tag-reform-party","tag-reform-uk","tag-robert-jenrick","tag-uk","tag-uk-energy-policy","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116232294632480332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}