The New Statesman.

Today, Nigel Farage set out his vision for the economy in a speech and press conference in London.

He talked tax, welfare, Brexit and his time working in the city.

I'm Olly Dougmore.

This is the New States from podcast and I'm joined

today by Ethan Croft. Hello, Ethan. Hello. Hi. You wrote Nigel Farage's speech this morning.

What happened? Well, there are a number of news events, I suppose. Some of this was trailed in the papers

this morning and on Sunday, but basically

Farage made what his people were excitedly describing to me last week as his first major

intervention on economics since the general election. So, I suppose, reform. It's one of its advantages in polling is that it is

the anti-immigration party. And so a lot of people in Britain who have got issues of immigration

are saying they're going to vote for reform. The downside of that is do they look like a kind of

one-trick pony? And they can only talk about one thing. So today you were seeing a kind of

attempt by Farage to kind of broaden, broaden his message, but also to tidy up some of what he

claimed were misinterpretations and misrepresentations of the things he said before on these

issues. So you had a U-turn on welfare policy, which he said wasn't a U-turn.

He said everybody just the first time I wrote the stories the wrong way around. That was on the

subject of the two-child benefit cap. So it had previously been reported based on a speech he gave

a few months ago that he wanted to get rid of the two-child benefit

cat and actually that was happening it was a kind of very clever bit of political maneuvering because

Farage had actually put himself to the left of Starma for a number of weeks that was before

well I mean in a way I suppose Starma still hasn't got rid of the two-child cap, although we are expecting something to come on that quite soon. But at the time, there was a lot of pressure from the Labour backbenchers to make a commitment to get rid of it by the government. And Farage came out and said, actually, he would. Now he's saying, oh, well, I'd get rid of the two child cap for British working couples

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