The policy announcements from the Conservative Party Conference are good news for Bromsgrove and the Villages.
Here's what was announced:
- Our "golden rule": for every £1 we find in savings, half will go on reducing the deficit
- Scrapping Stamp Duty on primary residences
- First job bonus for young people - first £5,000 of national insurance contributions will be saved to put towards house deposit for first time buyers (£10,000 for a couple)
- Saving £23 billion from welfare budget including reducing payments for low level mental health problems and ensuring only British citizens access welfare
- Cut the civil service back to 2016 levels from 517,000 to 384,000 saving £8 billion
- Save £1.6 billion by cutting net zero schemes including elements of Miliband's Great British Energy which are bearing down on bills
- Abolish business rates for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses
- Review IR35 to cut red tape on business
- Prioritising housing in London and cities whilst protecting rural greenbelt
- Abolish the Sentencing Council to ensure sentences reflect crimes
- Triple Stop and Search for safer streets
- Ban asylum claims for illegal entrants
- Deportation of 150,000 illegal immigrants a year, deporting all new illegal arrivals within a week and all foreign criminals
- End the Immigration Tribunal, Judicial Review and legal aid for immigration cases
