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Theyre making a fortune. 0k... what are you going to do? just tell everybody. lets... and rishi sunak was asked if he was prepared to leave the european convention on human rights. but if i am forced to choose between securing our borders and our countrys security or a foreign court, im going to choose our countrys security every single time. applause. if im prime minister, we will not pull out of international agreements and international law which is respected the world over. applause. but the...

Its based on treasury calculations, but the assumptions come from political advisers and some of those assumptions are questionable. for example, that doing things through the public sector is always going to be a lot less efficient. labour have made a big claim too. i can show you it here, that theres a £71 billion gap in the conservatives plans. theres a big dollop of caution on this one, too. this includes an assumption that the conservatives will scrap national insurance. the tories have sa...

On some of the claims weve heard from keir starmer and rishi sunak in the past few days. and i wanted to mention a couple that its worth casting a skeptical ear over if you hear them tonight. lets start with the economy, a key battleground. both parties have made big claims about what the other�*s policies would mean. so, what are the facts? the conservatives are claiming that theres a £38 billion gap in labours spending plans and to fill it, taxes have to go up. its worth being sceptical abo...

From keir starmer and rishi sunak in the past few days. and i wanted to mention a couple that it�*s worth casting a skeptical ear over if you hear them tonight. let�*s start with the economy, a key battleground. both parties have made big claims about what the other�*s policies would mean. so, what are the facts? the conservatives are claiming that there�*s a £38 billion gap in labour�*s spending plans and to fill it, taxes have to go up. it�*s worth being sceptical about this figur...

Policies would mean. so what are the facts? well, this is what the conservatives are claiming — that theres a £38 billion gap in labours spending plans and to fill it, taxes will have to go up. its worth being sceptical about this figure, though. its based on treasury calculations, but the assumptions come from political advisers and some of them are questionable. for example, that doing things through the public sector is always a lot less efficient. labour have a claim of their own that we ...

Sunak in the past couple of days and i wanted to mention a couple of things, and if you hear them tonight should cast a sceptical eye over them. the economy is a key battleground with both parties making big claims about the other�*s policies, so what are the facts? the conservatives claim there is a 30 april inbound gap in the labour spending plans —— £38 billion gap. taxes will have to go up, but it is worth being sceptical about the figures because the assumptions come from political a...

Sector is always a lot less efficient. labour have a claim of their own we wanted to scrutinise. the conservatives have £71 billion of unfunded spending commitments. this includes the assumption that the conservatives will scrap national insurance and the tories have said they would like to do that eventually but not any time soon and they say they will not do this unless the money is available. when you hear both of these claims you know politics is at play and both parties are trying to persu...

Conservatives have £71 billion of unfunded spending commitments. again, a big dollop of caution on this one. it includes an assumption the conservatives will scrap national insurance. the tories have said that they would like to do that essentially, but not anytime soon, and they have said that they wont do it unless the money is available. when you hear both of these claims, you know, politics is in play. both parties are trying to persuade you that they would be better at handling the country...

Through the public sector is always a lot less efficient. labour have a claim of their own that we wanted to scrutinise. this one — that the conservatives have £71 billion of unfunded spending commitments. again, a big dollop of caution on this one. it includes an assumption that the conservatives will scrap national insurance. the tories have said theyd like to do that eventually, but not any time soon, and they say they wont do it unless the money is available. so when you hear both of thes...

Or with labour. the audience responded very warmly. i thought rishi _ responded very warmly. i thought rishi sunaks best line was the one where _ rishi sunaks best line was the one where he _ rishi sunaks best line was the one where he told a barefaced lie. it is simply— where he told a barefaced lie. it is simply untrue labour will increase taxes _ simply untrue labour will increase taxes on _ simply untrue labour will increase taxes on people. weve ruled out vat rises, _ taxes on people. wev...