BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 12:08:00
Them, but we have seen these taxes just go up in the past few months. so it's the grand old duke of york kind or description of how these will go up and potentially come down if a certain prime minister comes in. what you have here, the backdrop to this, in order to meet the borrowing targets in the conservative manifesto, there is about £30 billion, i% of the worth of our economy, of room for manoeuvre. normally, you want to keep that in tact for a rainy day. but this is essentially being spent. that's the difference between the 3% rise in taxation and the 2% that has been spent on extra pub...