we ve all got a big decision to make about who leads the country for the next five years, about who has power and influence in westminster. you get the opportunity to have your say in the election on july the fourth. on monday, we heard from the prime minister rishi sunak and during this campaign we re talking to other party leaders. tonight, it s the turn of the leader of the opposition, labour leader sir keir starmer. sir keir, welcome. thank you very much for having me on. my promise at the start of this interview is that what you say in the next half hour or so will be broadcast in full. i want to give you the chance to make your case, and want you to answer some questions, so if you would do your best to do that. one thing we should also make clear is you don t know what the questions are in advance. thank you. three weeks from today, you could be spending your first night in downing street as our new prime minister. are you ready? yes, i know that we ve got to earn ever
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that higher rate of income tax. the threshold is lower, the rate is already higher, we are expected to go already higher, we are expected to 9° up already higher, we are expected to go up higher still. there is divergence and increasing divergence, a distinctive system here, these tax raising and tax lowering powers available to the scottish government inserting tax areas, including today, most significantly income tax. i think the scottish government would argue that this ability to be distinctive and take a different part is important and of course the snp alongside the scottish greens in power with them in edinburgh would argue they would like to go even further and their argument would be that only independence would deliver that. you will see the divergence in tax bands and tax you will see the divergence in tax bands and tax thresholds, - you will see the divergence in tax bands and tax thresholds, but - bands and tax thresholds, but business groups are wary, they have concern
or the reality versus what you want. and so much of these tax rises are, yeah, the freezing of the threshold, so things you re sort of not meant to even really notice, and quite a lot of them are quite a long way in the future. and then you look at them in the overall context of all the financial decisions made today, and actually the tax raising things seem quite actually quite small compared to all the attention that we give them in the news. yeah, i mean, ithink there was some debate before. i was going to call it- the budget, the autumn statement, i should say, j that actually the markets wouldn t want it all to happen today, and that they d sort i of make some announcements. but i think the markets reacted fairly well to this, and when i used to do. the budget programme, it was a nightmare programme to do, because the chancellorl would, you know, fire i off a thousand numbers. and i was desperately writing them down, thinking i m- about to report this. and that was gordon brown