labour s campaign is captured in one word and so far it is a pitch keeping sir keir starmer s party miles ahead in the opinion polls. yesterday, the labour leader pledged to change football governance rules to prevent any super league style breakaways by english clubs. today, the party is highlighting plans to create 350 new banking hubs in britain s towns a move the party claims would bring cash to high streets and help to keep pubs and other shops open. rishi sunak warned voters yesterday not to give labour a blank cheque on polling day. the prime minister knows the situation looks bleak for the tories but said he believes he can win. his tactic is to relentlessly criticise and question labour s tax plans. council tax is the latest focus and the tories say labour should rule out scrapping referenda on council tax hikes an attack labour described as hysterical and desperate. 3, 2, 1. while the two main parties slug it out, the liberal democrat leader ed davey seems to be
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. both the conservatives and labour are promising not to increase income tax, national insurance or vat during the next parliament. obviously there s a lot of politics in this too, but when it comes to the facts, that s where we re at. there was also a big claim that cuts are coming when it comes to public spending, whoever gets the keys to number ten. there s £18 billion of cuts coming down the line agr
have arrived on the island of symi to look for him. joe inwood has the latest. they are certainly made it to the first village as there was concern he had something that happened as he made away from the beach where he was with his wife to the village of pedi. i have spoken to somebody directly involved in the search and rescue operation this morning. they now think that, rather than continuing in a straight, direct route to the town of symi,, he actually doubled back around the bay and went for a much longer walk through a mountainous region. it s not certain exactly that is the route he took but that is the working hypothesis. it is worth pointing out that the route they think he took is far less used, far more rugged, and he was doing this in the heat of the day. it is nine o clock local time and it is already pretty hot. by 130, and i was out at the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are realfears the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are real fears that if
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 representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour s angela rayner on tax. they are going to put up your taxes by £2000. that s a lie! by £2000 per working household. crosstalk. your government have raised taxes i to the record level in 17 years. i yeah, we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. angela rayner had earlier talked about labour s plan to boost the economy with green i