to increase the personal tax allowance for pensioners if they win the general election. they say the proposal would be worth £275 a year to each pensioner by the end of the decade. under the plans, the state pension would always remain below the tax free threshold. rishi sunak says the scheme shows the conservatives are on the side of pensioners but labour have called it desperate . rishi sunak will be out campaigning in the midlands today. let s get more on this with nick eardley. what do you love about it? how do you win over older voters? it s a question politicians ask themselves a lot. pensioners tend to get out and vote. so today, an offer from the conservatives, that the basic state pension will never be liable for income tax. the simple fact is that this tax change, this triple lock plus, will mean going forward that millions of pensioners, eight million pensioners, in fact, will be paying less tax than they would otherwise be paying. and that is clearly a tax cut
former first minister s behaviour. nicola sturgeon was arrested. the party former chief executive was charged with embezzlement. you are a very well respected politician who has been around the snp for a long time. would you understand if voters wanted to punish you at this election for all of that which has gone on? we election for all of that which has one on? ~ ., ., ., ., gone on? we have had a tough time, laura. i gone on? we have had a tough time, laura- i think gone on? we have had a tough time, laura. i think that gone on? we have had a tough time, laura. i think that has gone on? we have had a tough time, laura. i think that has been - laura. i think that has been acknowledged, i ve acknowledged that on a constant basis since i became first minister, just about seven weeks ago. i have been very candid about the fact that i recognise that the snp has had that tough time, and myjob is to rebuild the trust between the public of scotland and the scottish national p
selective prosecution of documents of interference we election. get the elections and read the article and they re afraid that democracy has elections and they ll produce donald trump and the whole goal of this thing is to get him convicted before there s any election then the convictions will be reversed on appeal and if that doesn t work, trying to disqualify him under the 14th amendment and it is election interference and it s unjustified. sean: do you believe that? yeah, absolutely i agree with the professor and the behavior of the media was really shameful but of course they have no shame. i mean, they were like giddy children on christmas morning.
society and to da that you have to be anti-republican especially anti-trump. jesse: that s what happens when you put your career over the country. i don t want to be in polite society, i want to be impolite society. you are now you are taking it to these agencies. now, tell us about this letter that these 51 intel guys signed that affected the last election. is there going to be accountability there? well, i hope so. they don t work for the government anymore. so part of it is to their accountability has to be damage to their reputation for having signed on to it. look, here s the thing. unlike these owe guys had this is a country where people have a right to say whatever they want. they want to put a letter out there, they can. the problem with these guys is they are utilizing previous service in government to say we are former intelligence officials not current ones former ones. all of us agree this is russian disinformation. do you know what happened as a result of that a tota