Rishi Sunak’s appeal to the right of the Conservative Party as he promises tax cuts in his manifesto

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Rishi Sunak will make a desperate appeal for tax cuts as he seeks to turn the tide of his disastrous election campaign.

The Prime Minister will reveal the commitments contained in the Conservative platform in what will be one of his last big throws of the dice before polling day.

But Labor hit back at the plans, with Keir Starmer accusing Mr Sunak of producing a “Jeremy Corbyn-style” document.

The Labor leader said the Conservatives were “building this sort of Jeremy Corbyn manifesto where anything you want can be in there. None of this is encrypted.

He added: “The money is not there for Tory desperation. And what they produce is a recipe for five more years of chaos.”

The Conservative leader will draw inspiration from the spirit of Mrs Thatcher to launch his manifesto.

He will say that as the party of Thatcher and Nigel Lawson, the former chancellor, the Conservatives believe in “sound money” and will ensure “weaker welfare so we can cut taxes”.

The package is expected to represent almost £20 billion in tax cuts and public spending, including a further £2.4 billion for new training places for doctors and nurses.

He will outline his plans to further cut National Insurance by 2p, but not scrap inheritance tax, as he fights for his political life, despite fears from his MPs that the move will do little something to advance the elections.

He has already pledged not to increase income tax, national insurance or VAT and to introduce a ‘triple lock plus’ to prevent pensioners paying income tax on their pension. the state.

He also doubled down on claims that Labor is planning a £2,000 household tax bomb, even after the figure was denied by the Treasury.

But even as he prepares to try to revive his party’s flagging fortunes, he has been forced to admit that his aspirations have become much more difficult under the Tories.

In an interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson on Monday evening, the Prime Minister admitted that the dream of home ownership, a key part of Margaret Thatcher’s revolution in the 1980s, had become much more difficult under the Tories of today.

The Conservatives say their ambition is to scrap national insurance where it is financially responsible to do so, a policy which Labor says will cost £46bn by 2030.

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