forformer election for them? joining us today for former conservative cabinet minister, shadow business minister, liberal democrat and daily telegraph, columnist. this is politics live, election 202a. welcome to viewers on bbc two, bbc news and the iplayer. parliament has been dissolved which means politicians, are no longer mps but candidates. ordinary members of the public standing in their respectful constituents for their parties but they are welcome all the same. let s start for tax and spend and this headline on bbc news. labour rules out raising vat after was started by the chancellor, jeremy hunt writing today promising a conservative government you heard in the headlines, would not raise any headlines, would not raise any headline taxes. he claims that labour does have a plan to raise vat, this of course is a classic election strategy to try and expose hidden plans by your rivals during the campaign. but labour have quashed them and ruled out, as you also heard in th
what is there in the election for young voters? national service, reform, covered in the cost of living crisis? what is in it for you? and rishi sunak says he is incredibly angry about the betting scandal. good evening live from the newsnight studio, where our guests, young, old, well, older and somewhere in between, entertain us with interviews and searing, late night insight. we shouted out for younger voters to get in touch about how they re feeling about the election. 26 year old harrison from bournemouth came straight back. hello, newsnight, definitely feeling ignored during this campaign. six months ago, i had to quit myjob in watford and move back home to live with my parents in bournemouth with the cost of renting being the leading factor in my decision. i simply couldn t afford to live where i worked. i haven t heard anything from any of the political parties during this campaign that i think will materially improve the lives for young people. we ve got a stuffed so
portfolio that she has been overseeing all ready to do with levelling up and taking the labour side of that argument with the conceptus. you are hearing a couple there from ione about this plan to get people back into work, so unifying job centre plus and the careers service into one service, a one stop shop to help people. that idea to get local plans and also to have a youth guarantee so that young people, 18 21 year olds would have training or help to find jobs. the conservatives say this is waffle, not welfare reform, that there isn t much actual substance to it. we will put that to them and see what they say in a few minutes. conservatives have their own, obviously a whole load of welfare policies they have
cutting taxes. the tax burden has risen recently to its highest level in the post war period but what rishi sunak was highlighting was he has recently announced a cut in national insurance, taken effect on saturday, and he wants to indicate the direction of travel and give voters a sensitive they reward the conceptus with another term in office taxes will come down even more. , , . ., more. just confirming there, the prime minister more. just confirming there, the prime minister saying more. just confirming there, the prime minister saying they re . prime minister saying they re working assumption will be there will be a general election in the second half of the year, a working assumption, of course. not quite the same is set in stone. i general election in the second half of this year. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. times are tough for her mother alice so when her midwife delivered a special basket of items, and the
actually deliver that and i think it s that fear of an early general election that is helping keep less trust place place amongst conservative mps giving the pollen deficit liz truss. it is prime minister s questions, and diff cure stomach is therapeutically hard time in points out that many of the campaign pledges have been shredded, talks about the political repetition, how she deals with it will be crucial to longevity. if you look so she not handling it well some conservative mps do we want to see this on repeat every week? at what point is that balance of risk change, which is more risky leadership contest? she is due to me again with the chairman of the backbench, 1922 committee, that run leadership elections. i think they will be effectively taking soundings amongst backbench mps about how she prefers tomorrow. nothing is inevitable in politics, it has been a surprising thing for all of us, she could leave the conceptus into the next general election, she could possibly not e