Theresa May vows to slash £100 from the energy bills of 17 MILLION families as she bids for Tory landslide
The Tory manifesto will also reportedly include reforms to workers' rights
THERESA May will slash £100 from the energy bills of 17million families in a bid to secure the political centre ground, it has been revealed.
reports the Conservative manifesto will outline the plan to cap gas and electricity bills for households paying "rip-off" standard variable tariffs.
According to senior ministers, May will also introduce reforms to workers' rights offering protection against "rogue bosses" - an area usually dominated by Labour.
It comes as it was revealed the Tories are set to sweep HALF of the votes cast in the General Election, a shocking new poll has revealed.
That share of the vote would give the PM a bigger majority than Tony Blair gained in 1997.
Hitting the magic 50 per cent would give the Tories a majority of more than 200 seeing labour loose at least 90 MPs.
If achieved that would see Theresa may beat the 418 seats won in 1997 by New Labour that saw the Tories out of power for 13 years, reports.
The numbers make even grimmer reading for Jeremy Corbyn when the question is who would make the best PM with May winning that poll with whopping 62 per-cent share.
It also gives the Prime Minister a better rating than Corbyn, Tim Farron and Paul Nuttall can muster combined.
May even out performs the embattled Labour leader in their Northern heartlands and their former stronghold of Scotland.
Another poll for the Sunday Express also revealed as many as one in seven Labour voters were planning to switch from red to blue on June 8.
Leadership and Brexit were said to be the main reasons for the mass defection giving an even further boost to the PM's campaign.
In a desperate bid to win votes Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to give the UK four new bank holidays if they hand him the keys to Number 10.
The news comes as Theresa May was branded "power hungry" by the EU's chief Brexit negotiator for calling a general election.
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Guy Verhofstadt said the PM was was using the need to strengthen her hand in the upcoming talks as an excuse for grabbing more power.
The former Belgian prime minister branded the election a “power grab” by the Tories saying the wanted to take advantage of the disorganisation of the Labour Party.
He wrote in the Observer: “The theory espoused by some, that Theresa May is calling a general election on Brexit in order to secure a better deal with the EU, is nonsensical.
“We can only conclude that many British politicians and the media still don’t fathom how article 50 will work in practice.
“Will the election of more Tory MPs give Theresa May a greater chance of securing a better Brexit deal.
“For those sitting around the table in Brussels, this is an irrelevance.”
That cam as it is revealed Brits could be hit by tax hikes and higher spending on overseas aid if Theresa May wins the election, with the Tories accused of going for White Van Man by axing the Tax Lock.
On an extraordinary day of campaigning, the PM stunned her backbenchers by committing to carry on spending 0.7 per cent of economic output on aid.
She promised a radical review of the bloated £13billion-a-year overseas aid budget — to ensure the money is spent in the “most effective way”.
But staring down calls for the 0.7 per cent target to go, she insisted she was “very proud of the record” it gives Britain around the world.
Separately, in an extraordinary gaffe, Chancellor Philip Hammond paved the way for tax hikes for millions by hinting that David Cameron’s 2015 “Tax Lock” would be shelved.
Speaking in the US, he insisted he wanted full “flexibility” when it came to running the nation’s finances.
It sparked claims he wanted to revisit a ditched Budget Day increase in National Insurance for self-employed “strivers”.
Lib Dem chief Tim Farron said: “Philip Hammond is out to bash White Van Man yet again.”
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