Reform’s treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick will outline plans to slash regulation as opposition parties urge Chancellor John Healey to cut green taxes, slash environmental red tape and back North Sea oil in his first Budget.

Healey will unveil his Budget on October 28.

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Ministers had looked at changing the law after the UK’s departure from the European Union in 2020 to allow traders to use Britain’s traditional weighing system – which measures in pounds and pints – alongside the metric one.

But, in 2023, they decided against the move after 98.7% of the 100,938 respondents to an official consultation said they were happy using metric units when buying or selling a product.

Jenrick said ahead of his speech on Monday: “Everything reported so far suggests this will be a ‘mañana’ budget’, with John Healey dodging the tough decisions our country needs.

“We can’t continue like this. The country can’t wait ten years for Andy Burnham to work out a plan – we need action now.

“Reform would bring forward more than 60 job-creating measures in our first budget to kickstart the economy. These common-sense policies cost the taxpayer nothing – it’s a no-brainer.

“Reform UK has the plan to make the economy work again: spend less, tax less, borrow less and finally put the British people first.”

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But Liberal Democrat energy spokeswoman Pippa Heylings said: “Families are facing skyrocketing energy bills because gas and oil prices are soaring yet again – but approving Rosebank would do nothing to change that.

“The Conservatives and Reform have their fingers in their ears to that reality – and now Andy Burnham might be about to join them.

“Liberal Democrats recognise that we are going to need gas and oil for decades to come as part of the transition to cleaner energy, but this Government needs to learn from the Conservatives’ failure and genuinely move us away from our dependence on oil and gas.”