Watch Nigel Farage launch Reform UK's election platform

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Watch Nigel Farage launch Reform UK's election manifesto on Monday June 17.

Farage is set to unveil the manifesto, which the party calls "CONTRACT". with voters in Wales.

Speaking ahead of the event, the Reform leader said he was “launching a crusade to defend British values” and that the venue had been chosen “ because it shows everyone exactly what happens to a Wales. country where Labor is in charge."

He will outline Reform Party policies in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, at 1 p.m. before taking questions.

The party will fight the election on immigration, with policies already announced including an "employer immigration tax" on businesses that choose to employ foreign workers instead of British citizens.

< p>Reformers pledged to freeze legal immigration, with the exception of healthcare workers, and to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

Regarding economy, the party aims to cut £91 billion in public spending by stopping the Bank of England from paying interest on quantitative easing reserves and finding £50 billion of wasteful spending in Whitehall.

He promised there would be no tax on incomes below £20,000 a year, that he would scrap the government's net zero targets and would "defend culture, British identity and values.”