Threshold. Now is not the time, says borisjohnson. Meanwhile the labour party pledges to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. Voters in hong kong turn out in record numbers to cast their ballots in District Council elections. Five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of Police Officers injured. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has unveiled the conservative manifesto with a speech in which he promised to spend more money on Public Services without raising income taxes. He also pledged repeatedly to get brexit done, and vowed to keep the United Kingdom intact. The headline promise of this manifesto is the conservative pledge not to raise income tax, National Insurance contributions or vat. The so called triple tax lock. They also kept up the pressure on labour over the nhs by promising 50,000 nurses more than double what labour were proposing.
Manchester united are losing 2 1 to sheffield wednesday. Full details in sports day in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. In a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england theres a pledge to add 50 thousand more nurses and restore nursing grants thats on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the Health Service. He said thered be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for 5 years. And he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance, to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person. Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg was at the manifesto launch, and her report contains some flash photography. Ahead, but farfrom clear. Feeling optimistic . Tories out the
Chinas secret brainwashing camps bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And coming up at 8 30 a bbc investigation finds Vulnerable Children are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes. Thats in britains care scandal exposed. Good evening. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament, as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. In a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england theres a pledge to add 50,000 more nurses, and restore nursing grants, thats on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the health service. He said thered be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. And he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person
Chinas secret brainwashing camps. Bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And at 11 30pm, we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, ros altmann and mihir bose. Stay with us for that. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament as soon as possible after the election if he wins. In a speech in telford, in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england, there was a new pledge to add 50,000 more nurses to the workforce, partly by stemming the flow of people leaving, and also by recruiting from overseas. There was also a promise to restore nursing grants and train more staff. He said there would be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. An earlier plan from mrjohnson to raise the income Tax Threshold for higher earners is scrapped, but t