you want the bbc to cover, and time and again, housing came up. peter felix, who lives locally, was one of the many who contacted us through your voice, your vote. he and his partner are both in their 40s. they would love to buy a home together, but can t get onto the housing ladder. the average price paid by a first time buyer in the uk last year was just over quarter of a million pounds. that s up from £109,000 20 years earlier. the average age of a first time buyer in the uk is now 33. at the same time, private rental costs have gone up more than 9% in just the last year. so tonight, we re here in the black country to the west of birmingham, where peter now lives with his partner rebecca. 0ur midlands correspondent navtej johal has been to meet them. there s nothing, there s no help. we just want a home. we just want to have our own home. that s what we d probably like. peter paints and decorates homes. do you want to hand, pete? please. but he and his partner rebecca are
tax for the big banks. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker reports. leader of the liberal democrats, ed davey! applause. a day to make some noise. the liberal democrats have been loudly declaring that the nhs and social care is in crisis. with a leader who has spoken about his experience of caring for his disabled son and previously his mother. after years of conservative chaos and neglect, the scale of the challenge is enormous, so our manifesto doesn t shy away from that. we are putting forward a bold, ambitious and fully costed plan to tackle the health and care crisis from top to bottom. this is a manifesto to save the nhs. crisis from top to bottom. the lib dems are pledging to give everyone the right to see a gp within seven days or 2a hours if urgent. provide free at home care for the elderly and disabled. and guarantee access to an nhs dentist in an emergency. the party also wants to lift the two child benefit cap, increase aviation taxes on people who frequent
that looks like a real blunder. and a cabinet minister said to me, you ve got a $100 million bill lying on the floor and you don t pick it up. so it s notjust the mistake, it s also the lost opportunity of the mistake. and laura, last night when we did newscast, you mentioned that text you d had about somebody saying, this is just the worst operation ever. and as i was going to bed last night, i was like, i wish i d asked laura more about that, because that s an amazing quote. not to get you to reveal your sources, but what sort of people are messaging you with that stuff now? is this, like, candidates? is this, like, former friends of rishi sunak? i think it s what. the sense i have, henry, and i don t know if you would agree with this, is that what is happening now, it seems to me almost every day, the group of people who are still really putting their shoulder to the wheel in this campaign is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. and there are more people, including
we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s a really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour can get in touch with us. newscast@bbc.co.uk if you re that way inclined. we love to hear people s views as we chew thr
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