£2,000 figure is misleading. let s have a look at how the conservatives reached their number, how they reached their calculations. it was this, £38.5 billion black hole is what they claim, and they have basically divided that by the number of working families in the country and come up with this figure, £2094. now, that is over a four year period, so about £500 a year. the prime minister said last night that this was the work of independent treasury officials. it is true to say that treasury did most of the sums, but political advisors who work for the chancellor were the ones who set the terms of the calculations by making assumptions about labour s policies. now over here, we can show you, this is the policy list the conservative party produced and how much it would allegedly cost. but not all of it has been
now he is en route for the d day commemoration. plenty of time to contemplate and communicate with other labour members because it is them he needs to come out in his support. there hasn t been a cabinet of chorus members here giving that vocal support for vaughan gething. he wasn t first choice to be first minister, it s hard right now to see just how long he has in thejob. the election campaign has seen a bitter row breaking out with the labour leader sir keir starmer accusing rishi sunak of lying after the prime minister made misleading claims in last night s tv debate about labour s tax plans. mr sunak had said that labour s policies would result in a £2,000 tax rise for every working family a figure he said had been worked out by impartial civil servants. but a top treasury official has said that it is not the case. in a moment, we ll look at how the conservatives arrived at that figure but first here s our political editor chris mason. 0n last night s tv debate,
rishi sunak said this. higher taxes, £2,000 worth of higher taxes under the labour party. ..and again. by saddling them with £2,000 worth of higher taxes. ..and over, and over again. independent treasury officials have costed labour s policies, and they amount to a £2,000 tax rise for every working family. keir starmer did eventually say it was false. this £2,000 he keeps saying it s going to cost is absolute garbage. but that wasn t the end of it. here was one of the prime minister s closest allies on the breakfast sofa this morning. i have worked in the treasury, and i can tell you these - i are brilliant independent civil. servants, and they would not be putting anything dodgy in there. these are all the policies that have | been set out by the labour party. i and actually, if anything, they are underestimating the cost to families. and look at what she said next. it has been signed off- by the permanent secretary of the treasury. yes, the most senior civil servant here at the t
and is here to explain. let s have a look at how the conservatives reached their figures. this is the claim, that there s a £38.5 billion gap in labour s spending plans. the conservatives have divided that by the number of working households and come up with their £2,000 figure. note this is over a four year period, so about £500 a year. the prime minister said last night this was the work of independent treasury officials. it is true that the treasury did most of the the sums but political advisers, who work for the chancellor, were the ones who set the terms of the calculations by making assumptions about labour s policies. this is the policy list the conservative party produced and how much it would allegedly cost. but not all of it has been costed by the treasury. these ones here come from other documents. for this one, labour s green prosperity fund,
hole is what they claim, and they have basically divided that by the number of working families in the country and come up with this figure, £2094. now, that is over a four year period, so about £500 a year. the prime minister said last night that this was the work of independent treasury officials. it is true to say that treasury did most of the sums, but political advisors who work for the chancellor were the ones who set the terms of the calculations by making assumptions about labour s policies. now over here, we can show you, this is the policy list the conservative party produced and how much it would allegedly cost. but not all of it has been costed by the treasury. these three at the bottom that have been highlighted there, they come from other documents. for example, this one, the green prosperity plan, comes from a labour policy document,