of the labour week. maybe we will put that to one of the labour party week. maybe we will put that to one of the labour party spokesman - week. maybe we will put that to one | of the labour party spokesman here, you will have ministers later here before the debate. we will get all sorts of facts and figures truths and untruths from the stage tonight. how will we sipped our way through? are verified team will be watching. nick eardley and our bbc verify team will be fact checking the debate tonight. seven parties tonight so we will hear lots of different views that will be a lot for the team here to fact check. the goal is going to be to put some of the claims here tonight in context. explain what you can trust and what we should perhaps be a bit more sceptical about. let me remind you of some of the stuff we have heard already this week because there has been controversial claims in the last few days. the conservatives have doubled down on this one will still rishi sunak make a lot
lots of claims and counter claims were made during the televised leaders debate between rishi sunak and sir keir starmer including a heavily disputed conservative claim that labour s policies would mean a £2,000 tax rise for every household. ben chu from bbc verifyjoins us now. ben, you ve been fact checking the numbers? we have. was that claim from rishi sunak in the debate last night that labour would put up household taxes by £2000 produced by the treasury? that is what the conservative leader implied. here is what he actually said. independent treasury officials have costed labour policies and they amount to £2000 tax rise for every working family. let s explain how that £2000 figure is generated. the choice added up what they say are the net cost of labour spending commitments in the next four years and come to a keenness of some of
appears to be doubling down, releasing this video on social media. he may hope all you ll hear is scary numbers, but now doubt has been cast on the claim, he risks something else public trust. jessica parker, bbc news in westminster. let s talk about that claim. what s going on? was that claim from rishi sunak in last night s debate that labour would put up household taxes by £2000 produced by the treasury? that is certainly what the conservative leader implied. here is what he actually said. first, let s explain
of them are watching on things free view, orjust listening to the radio. there is no method at the moment of making those subscription services. what would you do to someone who does not pay a subscription and still wanted to listen to radio one, two, three, four or wanted to watch bbc one or two on normal free view terrestrial television? that is the problem. how would you bring that about? some countries have got rid of their tv licence fees, germany and so on, but they have replaced them with things like household taxes or added them to other bills orjust bundled it by central taxation. to other bills orjust bundled it by centraltaxation. to other bills orjust bundled it by central taxation. funded it by central taxation. there are very few countries that have stopped the funding and introduced a subscription model for public television. australia and new zealand will send surveillance flights to the pacific island nation of tonga, to assess the damage caused by a volcanic eru
democrats used fall out over inauguration crowd size to measure how congressman nick mcveiny would challenge the president on disputed facts. let s listen. are you comfortable as you proceed as a key budget advisor presenting falsehoods as simply an alternative fact? as you and i discussed in your office, i have every intent and believe that i have shown up to this point in my time in congress i am deadly serious about giving you hard numbers. mulvaney also addressing another question at hand, why he didn t pay payroll taxes, what was his response? he said it was a mistake. that was the first thing he said. this was a baby-sitter he hired for his newborn trip lets. he didn t realize he he had to pay household taxes. take a listen. during the transition, i got a checklist. have you ever had a baby-sitter,