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of fact—checkers busy here at bbc verify. let's start with a claim that's 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 won't. that's a lie. by £2,000 per working household. penny, your government have raised taxes... crosstalk. we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. we've looked at this a lot in the last few days and the figure is misleading because the £2,000 is over four years and the figures the conservatives have used to calculate it are dubious. bo...

raised rishi sunak�*s absence from part of thursday's d—day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans — but also to all of us because he was repre...

Avella. so, pretty much the first order of business of the pence campaign after he qualified to say we hope donald trump has the courage to be on that stage. what would a pence-trump dynamic look like in that first debate? >> what we do know, john, if the president isn't there, pence becomes the sounding board for all trump-pence administration policies, all the other republicans go after mike pence to be the proxy for donald trump and he will have to defend all of the policies of the trump administration. it will be an interesting dynamic if you have the president and his former vice presiden...

Of defense. you call that you know the idea but that would be a first. >> that was a nutty idea i concur. a passing moment but sheet metal said, what do you think? it was towards the end of the time. we have gone through the secretary of defense and the president had come to trust me. i write in a story staying mission focused and i think that is what the president was saying, maybe you can do a book. that would be nuts. >> brian: talking before, my opinion only, on that stage debating against the former president of the united states. i believe mike pence will be there too. would you be reluc...

Anything that relates to what he would be doing as president. he said he's stepping down from boards. it is going to make people wonder why didn't he just do that in the first place several years back. i think this issue despite the manner in which president trump has brought it up, i think it is now seeped in enough and i think joe biden was struggling even before this came up. i think this is accelerating joe biden's struggles and i don't think this put anything to rest and i this it will continue the questions. >> andrew, how do you see it. >> i found the timing today to be curious knowing ...