By Jack Doyle Associate Editor For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:03 GMT, 17 January 2019 | Updated: 03:18 GMT, 18 January 2019
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Boris Johnson will today call for tax cuts and immigration controls as he launches a thinly-veiled pitch for the Tory leadership.
Setting out his vision for the country after Brexit, the former foreign secretary will appeal to traditional conservative voters with an eye-catching pledge to introduce ‘no new taxes’.
But in a major speech, he will also argue that the referendum result was about more than restoring democracy – and exposed a ‘worrying’ gap between London and the rest of the UK.
Boris Johnson will tomorrow call for tax cuts and immigration controls as he launches a thinly-veiled pitch for the Tory leadership
Speaking at the JCB headquarters in Staffordshire, Mr Johnson will say Brexit is an opportunity to unite the country.
Echoing Theresa May’s attacks on crony capitalism, he will condemn overpaid business executives and firms who have hired migrants and failed to invest in British workers.
He is the latest contender for the Tory leadership to set out a wide-ranging vision for the future, following a speech by fellow Eurosceptic Dominic Raab on Monday.
Many Tory MPs also saw Environment Secretary Michael Gove’s barnstorming speech attacking Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons on Wednesday as a sign of leadership intent.
Mr Johnson will urge ministers to focus on the ‘issues that drove Brexit’, and argue the Leave vote was ‘triggered by a feeling that in some way the people of this country have been drifting too far apart’.
