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I very rarely agree with a Labour MP. But when it emerged last month that Labour’s Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, had privately admitted the Government “had no growth strategy”, I couldn’t help but agree.

The economy is in a mess right now. Unemployment is up. The price of household items keeps rising and rising. Electricity and fuel bills are extortionate. It’s little wonder living standards are forecast to fall. Out in the real world, away from the Chancellor’s grand offices, people are really struggling to get by. Families are cutting back on holidays and meals out. Pensioners are worried about putting the heating on, and in many cases are forced to go without. I even heard the harrowing story of a cancer patient who fears she won’t be able to make her chemotherapy appointment because the cost of fuel is so high.

Nigel Farage and I know how tough things are and we are determined to give Daily Express readers relief. That’s why this week we announced that we will reverse Rachel Reeves’ disastrous increase in fuel duty by 5p a litre. We won’t just oppose it, as the Tories have said they will do. We would reverse it in our first budget.

As a signal of our intent, we even took over a petrol station in Derbyshire this week and gave people reduced fuel prices. Unlike the old parties, when we say something we mean it!

And we will pay for that tax cut by cutting Ed Miliband’s crazy net zero waste. Why is he using taxpayers’ money to subsidise foreign electric cars and spend billions on hand outs for expensive and clunky heat pumps? It just doesn’t make sense. We will end the expensive net zero madness that has been inflicted on the country and use that money to cut people’s bills.

And we will unapologetically drill in the North Sea for oil and gas, bringing back good jobs to the UK. It is economic lunacy to ignore our rich energy reserves.

At times like this when bills keep rising with no end in sight, it’s easy to lose hope. Britain is broken, but it can be fixed. Reform UK is on your side.