The conservatives will pledge not to raise the rate of income tax, National Insurance or vat when they publish their election manifesto this afternoon. Borisjohnson has also said he wants to bring his brexit deal back to the commons before christmas, if the conservatives are returned to power. Our Political Correspondent, nick eardley reports. What would he do with power . This afternoon, borisjohnson will unveil the conservative manifesto. His basic message deliver brexit and move onto domestic priorities. He will pledge that the bill that will deliver brexit will be brought back to parliament before christmas if he wins the election. That, he says, would allow the country to move on. So what will the conservatives do on the home front . They will pledge today not to raise rates of income tax, National Insurance, or vat. Thatll make it harder for the government to raise money, but the tories are still pledging to spend. Mrjohnson has already promised money for the health service, for
I know. Alltime highs we have like, what, 39 trading days to go is that it . It is a tight time frame here the interesting thing around the market is it has shrugged off concern. One of the reason the market has gone higher is because of really light positioning. That mentality hasnt changed. That has fuelled the rally in the market you see the dow in the green but just barely. Nasdaq futures down by a point again, we are sitting at new highs after the gains we added on yesterday you look at the treasury market yielding 1. 85 xerox looking at buying hp. The company has an informal funding commitment xerox has a Market Company a third of hp. Both of these companies former technology stall waters. Xerox has had a couple of falls. Do people steel xerox things it is like faxing. Hp has tried to keep up it is like help me im drowning. Hp shares are up. Xerox somehow is the acquiring company. And there would be a premium to hps market cap. I just get depressed reading this xerox already scra
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In a new report into the it meltdown which left nearly 2 Million People without online services. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben croucher. A big night coming up for wales as they bid to qualify for the european championships. They know victory in cardiff over hungary tonight will see them into next years tournament automatically, hoping their big guns like gareth bale and aaron ramsey will be fit. Good afternoon, it was a cold and frosty start for many this morning, slowly they will be a milder air coming in from the south west with the chance of rain, and late in the programme we have a look at how wet it has been so far this month. Good afternoon, welcome to Southampton Solent University where we are coming from during today on bbc news. Boris johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in theirfirst general election tv debate tonight. The liberal democrats and snp wont be taking part in the show on itv, after they lost a last minute legal bid to be included. T
Vision. Do you think they have perhaps learned from the mistakes of the past . 2017, theresa may five ma nifesto, the past . 2017, theresa may five manifesto, where she famously you turned, and it was a disaster. What borisjohnson is trying to do is appeal to the labour heartland, previously he talked about potentially increasing the threshold for the higher rate of income tax, talking about stamp duty, these are not popular with the traditional labour motors, and you will see they are not in the manifesto at all. What he has done is he has steer clear of all of that, but he has talked about these people policies, the nhs is his number one, 50,000 nurses, grants for nurse training, he has talked about the police and education, he has not talked about social care which is a whole other issue, and i think that is what theresa mays Biggest Issue was. It isa theresa mays Biggest Issue was. It is a very safe manifesto. And he has very much pitched it as lets get back to done at the end ofja