Can Nigel Farage and Reform balance the books?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Meanwhile, Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, said Farage has committed to "extra welfare spending and a huge expansion of the state", adding it is "impossible to take Reform seriously on the economy when their promises disintegrate after five minutes".
50% : It also raises serious "questions over the spending cuts or tax increases needed to achieve this goal, as well as the precise definition of the pledge itself".
48% : In a speech in the City of London this morning, the former stockbroker said the country was being "led by human rights lawyers, not entrepreneurs", and blamed a "political class who are not business people" of wasting the "opportunities to deregulate and become more competitive" offered by Brexit.
42% : Headline-grabbing promises made at the last election such as lifting the income tax threshold to £20,000, scrapping inheritance tax on estates of less than £2 million, and taking water companies back into public ownership, are set to be junked.
42% : When spending is "under control" and borrowing costs down, said Farage, "then, and only then, will I cut taxes to stimulate growth".
42% : There is a belief among Reform insiders that the economy is "only going to worsen before the next election," said The Times, which will mean the Tories "having to abandon many of their promises to cut taxes".
41% : But still "don't be fooled: this doesn't mean that Reform is abandoning the economic radicalism that the UK desperately needs if it is to break out of its doom loop of stagnant growth and rising taxes".

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