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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK announced a series of new policies at the party’s conference.

The gathering in Birmingham was focused on Reform’s first 100 days in government if it wins the next general election.

From stopping small boats to bumping up the tax-free personal allowance, Mr Farage and other members of his top team unveiled key plans.

The Daily Express rounds up the biggest new policies below:

National emergency

Mr Farage vowed to declare a “national emergency” on his first day in government if he enters 10 Downing Street.

He said Reform would introduce a flood of new legislation and force Parliament to sit seven days a week to pass it.

The Reform leader warned that Britain is “in serious trouble”, adding: “We don’t have time to wait around to fix it.”

Personal allowance

Robert Jenrick pledged to raise the tax-free personal allowance in his speech to the jamboree.

In what is seen as a flagship policy, Reform’s Treasury spokesman told supporters that he would increase the income tax threshold to £15,000.

The personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since 2021 in what is a major stealth tax and is due to remain at that level until 2031.

Mr Jenrick said: “The hard choice for Burnham and for us is exactly the same. It’s either welfare waste, foreign aid and migrants — or the British worker. We choose the worker.”

Reform said the plan would save the average taxpayer £500 a year and take 2.9 million people out of income tax altogether, at a cost of £17.7 billion in its first year.

Small boats

Mr Farage promised to stop small boats within 100 days if he he takes power.

The Reform UK leader announced a “new entente cordiale” with France’s right-wing National Rally party.

The deal for the two parties to co-operate on returning migrants to France was signed by Mr Farage and National Rally president Jordan Bardella at Reform’s conference.

As he announced the agreement, the Brexiteer said: “We are about to sign a memorandum of understanding between our two parties, and we hope and believe our next two governments, where we reaffirm our commitment to stopping illegal immigration, where France say they’ll do their utmost to stop all departures and maybe this time, with him as prime minister, they will actually mean it.”

Mr Bardella added: “France must take back control, and France must finally keep its word.”

Energy bills

Richard Tice vowed that he would resign if he did not lash household energy bills by £250 in Reform UK’s first 100 days in office.

Reform said this would be done by axing government policy costs from electricity and gas bills, scrapping carbon taxes on generators, and permanently remove VAT from consumer energy bills.

The party’s deputy leader, who is a fierce critic of net zero policies, said he is “prepared to put my money where my mouth is”.

He told activists: “If I don’t deliver on that key pledge in the first 100 days, I will resign. That’s it.”

Mickey Mouse degrees

Suella Braverman announced plans to cut student loans being issued for “Mickey House” degrees.

Reform’s education spokeswoman also said she would lift the cap on medical school places and 0% interest loans for student nurses.

Mrs Braverman said: “We will lift the cap on how many doctors we train, we will fund nursing degrees like never before and we will remove the rubbish from our university sector to fund a British renaissance of culture and industry.”