DESPERATE Rishi Sunak unveiled a hard-right Tory manifesto today as he comes under mounting pressure from Nigel Farage’s Reform party.

Key Conservative pledges in their prolong-the-agony programme include further cuts to National Insurance, anti-migrant measures, a dilution of net-zero plans and a still more severe clampdown on the right to protest.

Having earlier admitted that the government had failed on housing, Mr Sunak offered a stamp duty cut for first-time buyers, with tax breaks for landlords who sell to tenants.