Here’s the place UK’s Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak stand on points from taxes to China

POLICY AREA
LIZ TRUSS
RISHI SUNAK
Economy/Taxes

Proposes greater than £30 billion ($36 billion) of tax cuts to place “money back in people’s pockets”
Would reverse National Insurance rise introduced on this yr by Sunak
Temporary moratorium on inexperienced levy to chop common power payments by £153
Would scrap subsequent yr’s deliberate rise in company tax to 25% from 19%
Delay paying down Covid debt
Reform tax system to make it fairer, together with overview on treating households as single tax entities
Advocates extra interventionist financial coverage; would look once more at Bank of England remit
Says recession predicted by BOE could be averted

Calls Truss’s plans “immoral” forpiling debt onto future generations
Top precedence is to regulate inflation
Supports decrease taxes in the long run
Plans non permanent VAT minimize on home power payments if worth cap on them rises above £3,000. In authorities he opposed such a minimize
As chancellor, introduced 1 penny minimize in earnings tax by 2024; Now says he’ll minimize one other 3 pence by 2030
Stick to plan to extend company tax in 2023
Reform taxation to reward corporations that make investments and keep away from penalizing small and medium-sized companies
Has expressed concern about Truss’s BOE proposals

Brexit/ Northern Ireland

Voted Remain however has since embraced depart and is supported by distinguished Tory Brexiteers
Architect of Northern Ireland Protocol Bill which might scrap bulk of provisions on the area within the Brexit deal struck by the UK with the EU
Pledges to scrap all EU regulation by finish of 2023, together with Solvency II and MiFID II guidelines in a “”bonfire” of pink tape

Voted Leave in 2016 Brexit referendum
Supports Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
Wants companies to see the advantages and freedoms that Brexit creates
Plans new Brexit supply division to overview 2,400 EU legal guidelines on the British statute ebook with view to scrapping or reforming them by the following election

Immigration

Supports authorities plan to discourage small boat crossings from France by deporting arrivals to Rwanda
Would prolong coverage to extra international locations
Step up legislation enforcement efforts to pursue prison gangs liable for people-trafficking
Increase front-line border drive by 20% and double maritime staffing
Tackle labour shortages in farming by way of short-term enlargement of seasonal staff program

Has 10-point immigration plan that would chop the definition of people who qualify for asylum
Supports Rwanda deportation plan, saying he’ll do “whatever it takes” to get it operating
Plans “small boats task force” to sort out cross-Channel individuals smuggling from France
Wants “more effective” relationship with France
Would cap asylum seekers
Reform Home Office, border drive

Defense/Ukraine

Spend a minimum of 3% of GDP on protection by 2030
Maintain UK management in supporting Ukraine together with by way of sanctions on Russia and offering heavy weapons to Ukraine
Keep dialog open with Russian President Vladimir Putin however solely to “call him out”

Takes “threat-based approach” to protection spending, pledging to speculate “whatever it takes to keep our country safe,” whereas steering away from “arbitrary numbers”
Continue to assist Ukraine with weapons, funding, sanctions
Won’t interact with Putin

Housing/Planning

Tailor coverage regionally to make housing extra inexpensive; construct vertically in cities and permit villages to broaden incrementally
Joined-up strategy for business and infrastructure so new housing constructed the place new jobs are primarily based
Consent by native communities is important to planning
Incorporate rental funds into mortgage assessments to permit as much as 50% of renters to get on property ladder
Scrap “top-down” housing targets, rip up pink tape to spice up housebuilding
Low-tax, low-regulation, low-planning “Investment Zones” together with creation of latest cities

Guarantee safety for inexperienced belt surrounding cities and cities
Doesn’t assist “arbitrary” constructing targets
Characterizes his planning coverage as “brownfield, brownfield, brownfield”
Change planning guidelines to permit denser housing in internal cities
Promote modular flat-pack housing
Tackle “land banking” by builders to make sure extra land is obtainable for development
Slash variety of empty retailers on excessive streets by permitting industrial buildings to be repurposed

China

Reduce UK dependence on China
Ban reliance on China for crucial nationwide infrastructure initiatives
Strengthen Commonwealth as counterweight to China by way of commerce and funding
Says UK ought to crack down on Chinese-owned TikTok

Says China is “No. 1 threat” to UK safety
Close all 30 Confucius Institutes in UK; overview China-UK analysis partnerships
Pursue “NATO-style” alliance to defend towards Chinese “technological aggression”
Counter Chinese industrial espionage
Consider banning Chinese acquisitions of key UK property

Energy/Climate Change

Supports web zero objectives, however not at expense of individuals and companies
Sees sturdy case for lifting fracking ban

Supports web zero targets
UK power sovereignty by 2045; deal with offshore wind
Won’t finish onshore wind moratorium
Create devoted power ministry

Other

Rules out second Scottish independence referendum
Scrap failing faculties, permit creation of latest grammar faculties
Cut National Health Service backlogs and delays by eliminating forms
Set police goal to chop severe crimes and neighborhood crime 20% by finish of this Parliament
Recruit 20,000 extra law enforcement officials
Would make it tougher for commerce unions to agree on strikes
Backs single-sex areas; would minimize civil service variety officers
Committed to Johnson’s core coverage of leveling up financial alternative, however had current gaffe by asserting — after which reversing — coverage to set public sector pay regionally in accordance with residing prices

Rules out second Scottish independence referendum
Backs new grammar faculties
Plans process drive to sort out NHS backlogs
Build greater than 100 specialist surgical hubs to deliver down ready occasions
Impose £10 penalty for lacking physician appointments
Expand police powers to sort out anti-social habits like graffiti, littering
Would forestall organic males from competing in ladies’s sports activities; vows to legislate so an individual’s intercourse means their organic intercourse
Committed to leveling up coverage