Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is setting out his party’s ‘Plan to Cut Taxes’ (Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire)
The Conservatives have launched their ‘moral mission’ to cut taxes for people ‘at every stage of life’, repeating a contentious figure about the potential tax rises under Labour.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak once again referenced the £2,094 ‘tax hike’ if his top rivals win on July 4 – but top statistics experts have questioned the calculations behind that number.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has set out his vision for Metro readers and ‘hardworking families’ in an exclusive op-ed for the newspaper.
He says ‘working people are feeling the pinch’ after 14 years of Tory governments and suggests his party will bring an ‘end to the chaos’ if it is voted into power.
Yesterday, Labour’s candidate for a seat in the north-east of Scotland was suspended over pro-Russia posts on social media.
Andy Brown, who was running in the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency, claimed the ‘toxin’ used in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings was ‘never produced in Russia, but was in service in the US, UK, and other Nato states’.
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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she had never heard of the candidate before this morning and was ‘very, very pleased that I will hopefully not have to hear of him again’.
More than 630,000 people registered to vote on the final day to submit applications yesterday, falling just short of the record set in 2019.