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 line agr
mission and successfully rescued four of our hostages from hamas captivity in gaza. noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andri kozlov. they are back home in israel. they are alive, they are well. they will undergo a medical examination and will soon be reunited with their families in the hospital. they were rescued after 246 days in hamas captivity after they were brutally kidnapped from they were brutally kidnapped from the nova music festival on the 7th of october. this was a high risk, complex mission, based on precise intelligence, conducted in daylight, into separate buildings deep inside gaza. while underfire, underfire inside the buildings, underfire on the way out from gaza, our forces rescued our hostages. israeli forces have been preparing for this rescue mission for weeks. they underwent intensive training. they risked their lives to save the lives of our hostages. this is what we do in israel. we risk our lives to save the lives of our hostages. while we ar