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of fact checkers busy here at bbc verify. let s start with a claim that s dominated the debate this week. angela rayner and the labour party, keir starmer confirmed this earlier this week, they are going to put up your taxes by £2,000. no we won t. that s a lie. by £2,000 per working household. penny, your government have raised taxes. crosstalk. we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. we ve looked at this a lot in the last few days and the figure is misleading because the £2,000 is over four years and the figures the conservatives have used to calculate it are dubious. both the conservatives and labour are promising not to increase income tax, national insurance or vat during the next parliament. obviously there s a lot of politics in this too, but when it comes to the facts, that s where we re at. there was also a big claim that cuts are coming when it comes to public spending, whoever gets the keys to number ten. there s £18 billion of cuts coming down the li ....
raised rishi sunak s absence from part of thursday s d day celebrations. respect our veterans, including those with an average age of 100, who were deserted by the prime minister in normandy yesterday, which i think was a complete and utter disgrace and shows us we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister. it was dreadful. it was cabinet minister and naval reservist penny mordaunt who had to answer for her leader. what happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us because he was representing all of us. penny mordaunt was keen to take the fight to labour s angela rayner on tax. they are going to put up your taxes by £2000. that s a lie! by £2000 per working household. crosstalk. your government have raised taxes i to the record level in 17 years. i yeah, we have, and we hated putting the taxes up. angela rayner had earlier talked about labour s plan to boost the economy with g ....
Has happened since the crash of 2008 under the bush administration, as a result of the deregulatory policies, we have had a normal recovery of jobs in the public sector. yeah. the problem has been that the right wing has cut public sector jobs, and that s been where we have a have the short fall. that s the problem. i m going have to hold it there. chairman barney frank, always nice to have you on the show. thank you for your time tonight. thank you, al. ahead, the nfl superstar who is making big place off the field too. larry fitzgerald is here live in the studio, next. y the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security ....
Irges what do you think about this question, are you better off and how it s being answered? ultimately there s a lot of ways to say we are better off, but we re in a situation of moving towards being much better off. so let s take, for example, the affordable health care act, the president s signature piece of domestic legislation. there are many families who can right now say yes i am demonstrably better off today as a result of the affordable care act, but he s also got to remind folks that most of those provisions have not yet kicked in, and that the quality of health care, the access to health care that americans are going to experience is actually going to show up in the next term. i think the other really important thing he s got to point out is to the stint there are unemployment woes, those are mostly being caused by republican governors who have cut public sector jobs? states and lots, the private ....
This recession, one of the things that s actually happened that was really unusual is we have cut public sector jobs, and in particular state and local jobs what you are seeing here are government jobs in recent recession. here s 81, reagan s big recession, a bit of a dip there, but government jobs begin recovering really quickly. in 1990, george h.w. bush, government hired the way through recession, and a bit out of it. 2001, george w. bush s recession, no dip in public sector, we aded them at a rapid clip, a lot from day 1 in the recession, and here is the most recent recession, the one that ends president bush s term, and a bit of a rise, that s usually stimulus, and huge spirk around the temporary census jobs, but ....