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Reacting to Wednesday's budget speech, Jonathan Arnott said:

"Gordon Brown told everyone that he was cutting the basic rate of income tax by 2p in the pound, but at the same time he increased the 'starting' rate of tax from 10% to 20%. Anyone earning under around £18,000 per year will pay more income tax under Mr. Brown's ‘tax cut'. Why can't he simply come clean and admit that he's increasing taxes on precisely those people who need to be rewarded by the government for their hard work?"

In addition to the income tax increase in the budget, there have been the usual tax increases on alcohol, cigarettes and petrol. For many people, a car is a necessity to get to work - making it even harder to make ends meet under Labour.

Jonathan said, "The average young person is earning slightly more under Labour, but paying a lot more in mortgage repayments and stealth taxes. We need policies that reward hard work. That's why UKIP's flat tax policy is so popular - we propose that nobody should pay any income tax at all on incomes under £9,000 - a move which would benefit everyone, and take over 4 million people out of tax altogether!"

Details of the flat tax policy, and how it can be paid for, can be found under the Policies section of this website.