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of fact—checkers busy here at bbc verify. lets start with a claim thats dominated the debate this week. angela rayner and the labour party, keir starmer confirmed this earlier this week, they are going to put up your taxes by £2,000. no we wont. thats a lie. by £2,000 per working household. penny, your government have raised taxes... crosstalk. we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. weve looked at this a lot in the last few days and the figure is misleading because the £2,000...

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