In a break from tradition, Government send out Brexit questionnaire to all 36,000 signatories of Mike Hookem MEP’s petition to remove the UK from the CFP and the Repeal Bill.

Ernie Warrender, the UKIP small business spokesman welcomed the fact that the Chancellor has listened to the arguments against lowering the VAT threshold as “we have always felt the biggest impact of such a change would be on the Elderly, single parents, disabled who rely on small businesses to repair their car, fix a leak, carry out repairs and a 20%+ price hike on the small business satisfying this need would have been crippling on the ‘wrong’ type of households. We note, however he has left the door open to this change in 2 years time.

UKIP Scotland welcome VAT will no longer apply to Scotland’s National Police and Fire services though the SNP were responsible for making the emergency Services vulnerable to VAT charges in the first place.

Watch UKIP Leader Henry Bolton being interviewed in ITV’s Sharp End. 

“Philip Hammond’s budget has served up a mixed bag of measures for road users”, according to UKIP Transport spokesman Jill Seymour.