independent treasury officials have costed labour s policies and they amount to a £2000 tax rights for working family. it looks like now the chief treasury civil servant actually wrote to labour at two days ago saying the conservative assessment of their tax plan should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service. the debate sought the labour leader sir keir starmer challenged over hospital waiting lists among other things. with a rant out of the highlights from that debate, this is our political correspondent ian watson. the first debate of the campaign was a head to head clash between the prime minister and the man who wanted to replace him. if you re still wondering about the key messages they want to hammer home at this election, wonder no longer. this election is all about a choice more of the chaos and division we ve seen for the last 14 years, or turning the page and rebuilding with labour. no one knows what labour would actually do. but you know
independent treasury officials have costed labour s policies and they amount to a £2000 tax rights for working family. it looks like now the chief treasury civil servant actually wrote to labour at two days ago saying the conservative assessment of their tax plan should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service. the debate sought the labour leader sir keir starmer challenged over hospital waiting lists among other things. with a rant out of the highlights from that debate, this is our political correspondent ian watson. the first debate of the campaign was a head to head clash between the prime minister and the man who wanted to replace him. if you re still wondering about the key messages they want to hammer home at this election, wonder no longer. this election is all about a choice more of the chaos and division we ve seen for the last 14 years, or turning the page and rebuilding with labour. no one knows what labour would actually do. but you know what i wou
rishi sunak said in the debate that treasury officials have costed labour s policies and they amount to a £2000 tax rise for every working family. claire coutinho went on the rating earlier and said that line was signed off by the chief treasury secretary but the chief treasury civil servant wrote to labour two days ago saying the assessment should not have been presented as having been produced by the civil service. claire coutinho spoke to bbc breakfast earlier saying that the £2000 tax rise figure that was used by rishi sunak against labour in that debate relates to a four year period, not a one year one. all of the proposals have been set up by the labour party and the costings have been done by treasury officials, but when you look at the most most expensive proposals, the green plan, we re probably hugely underestimating the cost to families. and i thought, actually, was very
chance s budget, from jeremy hunt. he spoke for about 15 minutes or so, saying that the country was paying for 13 years of tory failure, that the global crises, that have hit everybody have hit the uk worse than other comparable country, the tories had made choices that armed home and they had made mistakes. he also said they had made mistakes. he also said they were stealing a lot of labour s policies, everything from the windfall tax to the offer that we heard there on childcare, although as of yet labour hadn t actually set out precisely what they were going do. he raised a as big issue of concern for a lot of people and those are the backlog, the waiting lists in the nhs. this is a bbc politics live special, we are with you until 3.00. with our experts here, chief political correspondent for the bbc nick eardley, faisal islam, we have simonjack, business