Dark Mode
More forecasts: Johannesburg 14 days weather
  • Monday, 06 October 2025

Conservatives pledge £5,000 tax rebate for young home buyers

Conservatives pledge £5,000 tax rebate for young home buyers

In an attempt to encourage young people to buy their first home, the Conservatives claim to give them a £5,000 tax exemption in their first job. Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride also announced that the party will eliminate business rates for high street shops in his address to the party's annual conference. Retail, hospitality, and leisure businesses in England would be exempted from the duty under the plans, up to a maximum of £110,000 per year. Both plans, according to the party, would be paid for by a savings drive worth £47 billion a year from cuts to education, the civil service, and foreign aid.

Sir Mel attempted to put a stop to Liz Truss' disastrous 2022 mini-budget in order to reposition the Conservatives as the only party that can properly manage the public budgets. He sluggishly smuggishness in office, saying that leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation will leave a legacy. However, he argued that Reform UK's spending plans were just as bad, accusing the party of promising tens of billions in unfunded commitments at the last election. Nigel Farage's party was marching to the left on economic policy, according to him, with more investment and more debt.We're the only party that gets it.

The only party that will stand up for fiscal responsibility,
Trump said. "And that means we'll have to face some difficult truths with which other sides are completely blind.

£5,000 savings pot

People will see the first £5,000 of National Insurance they would have paid in their first job be transferred to a nominated savings account of their choice under Tory housing plans. The plans, which have been dubbed the First Job Bonus, will encourage couples to save a total £10,000 in a program that will cost £2. 8bn a year, the party says. Many of those benefitting from the scheme, which will be restricted to British nationals, will be allowed to draw down the pot after five years. It would be possible for young people to put money into a house deposit, or savings for later life, Sir Mel said. Following the depreciation, the party later revealed that it would not seek to limit how the funds can be used. The initiative to eliminate business rates would effectively lift an existing relief grant from 40% to 100%. The party claims that a year in 2029 will cost the Treasury around £4 billion a decade. ConserVATives claim that cutting government spending by £47 billion a year from 2029-30 to 2020 will reduce government spending, which will include new measures such as ending VAT on priVATe school tuitions, according to the party. Sir Mel cited depression, anxiety, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a result of the party's attempt to reduce working-age pension payments, according to BBC Radio 4. The Tories also want to investigate exemptions for the household benefit cap, including banning the VAT subsidy for Motability, which allows claimants to rent cars, and changing job-seekers' duties. The Office of Budget Responsibilityforecast that total spending on health and disability insurance will rise from £64 to £64 this year. 7bn in 2023-24 to £100. 7bn in 2029-30. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer revealed earlier this year that he would decrease the UK's aid budget by 0. 0 percent. 5% of gross national income to 0. In 2027, the defense budget increased by 3% in order to compensate for a rise in defense spending. The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) approved some of the plans, but warned the Conservatives not to ignore elephant in the room of age-related spending, such as pensions.

No political party is going to be able to balance the books by cutting things their followers don't like,
IEA executive director Tom Clougherty said.
Without that, other cuts are likely to be enough to keep running.
The Conservatives haven't agreed to reforming the triple lock, which guarantees that the state pension will rise each year in accordance with either inflation, wage increases, or 2. 5% - whichever is the highest. The proposed aid budget cuts, according to Romilly Greenhill, chief executive of Bond, the worldwide network of multinational development companies, were "reckless, short-sighted, and morally indefensible Sign up for our Politics Essential newsletter to stay up to date with Westminster's inner workings and beyond.

Comment / Reply From