Laura Bailhache

Statement to voters

Laura Bailhache, who is an Oxford graduate, lives and works in Taunton as a solicitor. She previously stood for UKIP in the Taunton Deane constituency in 2015, when she won about 12% of the vote. If elected, her top three priorities are to raise the income tax threshold to £20,000. She wants to encourage small businesses by raising the VAT threshold from £85,000 to £150,000, and partly pay for this by scrapping interest payments to commercial banks on their quantitative easing reserves. She said: "I hope these policies will encourage more people into work, leading to a much-needed rebalancing of the relative size of the public and private sectors in this country."

Election history

Westminster general elections