by rmt union. it has meant trains going out of service and millions of passengers going nowhere. my daughter s doing her gcses. i ve got to get her to and from school, so it s a right pain in the neck. i understand they want a pay rise and things change, i get that, but it s not fair for all the commuters. we are going to primarily focus on the two stories this hour, the rail strike in the uk and the hearing in washington, which is where we are going to begin. we start in washington, where the committee investigating the storming of the capitol onjanuary 6 is holding another public hearing. today s focus is on pressure by former president donald trump and his team for individual us states to overturn the election results. central to this are two battleground states arizona and georgia. joe biden won both by a razor thin margin and president trump has kept pushing false claims of electoral fraud. in opening statements, we heard from the republican vice chair liz cheney.
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
perhaps allowing it back in certain situations. but i think that is certainly an interesting development. also getting some comment from momentum moore, a group reflecting the left of the party, talking about disappointment moore on labour s and also to scrap the two child benefit, something labour has been under pressure for quite some time now. quite interesting these details are emerging now. tithe now. quite interesting these details are emerging now. now. quite interesting these details are emerging now. one of the words i heard this afternoon are emerging now. one of the words i heard this afternoon was are emerging now. one of the words i heard this afternoon was cautious, i heard this afternoon was cautious, which has been the general approach that the leader has taken throughout. if your 20 points ahead of in the polls, why would you rock the boat? there s been poles around house buying what truly matters to a lot of young people and renters up and down the country, there
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