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
news of another cyber this time affecting several large london hospitals, being described as a major cyber attack. services including the delivery of blood transfusions have been affected, according to memos are sent to nhs staff. we know that the king s couege staff. we know that the king s college hospital and guy s and saint thomases are amongst the hospital is experiencing problems, with some operations reported to have been cancelled or redirected. we will talk to one of a health correspondence about this shortly. more on that story, the breaking story coming up for you. let s continue with the general election campaign. the big news today is rishi sunak and sir keir starmer will go head to head in their first televised debate of the general election campaign tonight. the hour long programme on itv will be filmed in front of a live studio audience. it comes as the conservatives have promised to introduce a yearly cap on the number of migrant visas, while labour has accus
really, what matters is how their message in that debate last night translates to voters. we are in the constituency of lee and atherton. it was for many years a very safe labour seat, which switched hands in 2019 to the conservatives. it is part of the so called red wool which the labour party is hoping to win back. well, at this cafe, it opened in the early 60s, back when harold macmillan was prime minister. we have had quite a few prime ministers since then. linda, you own this cafe. it is very nice to be here. tell me what you thought of the debate last night. l tell me what you thought of the debate last night. debate last night. i watched the debate last night. i watched the debate last debate last night. i watched the debate last night. debate last night. i watched the debate last night. i debate last night. i watched the debate last night. i don t - debate last night. i watched the debate last night. i don t really| debate last night. i don t really find them a very good
leaders had been preparing intensely as the weeks before in the weeks before, but rishi sunak has also not done campaigning he has been with oliver dowden, his deputy, acting at 0liver dowden, his deputy, acting at the scenarios, debates, and we understand sir your test armour has been prepping with the team that normally helps him on pmqs prep sir keir starmer. every wednesday, the two face off in the house of commons, but this is an entirely different platform. rishi sunak is just a televised debate, he appeared in leadership debate against liz truss. some are keir starmer, in many ways, is trained in public speaking in the art of debate. so it is really anyone s to play for. what is really anyone s to play for. what is significant as well as it is happening in salford, a very important part in terms of the election, the northwest, home to the so called red wool, many safe labour seats that went to the conservatives in the last election red wall.