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in sport.swansea s premier league future is in their own hands, as they win and the teams around them slip up. and louise has the weather. good morning. it s another quiet day of weather mostly dry and yet again, west is best in terms of the sunshine and the warmth. more details from me later on. good morning. first, our main story. with just over a month to go until the general election, the political parties are making key pledges today. labour says if it wins, it will not raise income tax for those earning less than £80,000 a year. the conservatives are planning to reform mental health services, while the liberal democrats are vowing to protect pensions. 0ur political correspondent ellie price, can tell us more. ellie, the parties are making big promises today? absolutely. labour will be pleased with what they see as their pitch to low and middle income earners, that it s on the front pages today. they ve essentially saying they will not raise the standard rate of ....
are yasmin alibhai brown and david wooding from the sun on sunday. good morning and welcome to bbc news. parties campaigning in the general election have made a series of policy announcements this morning. labour have pledged not to raise tax on people earning less that eighty thousand pounds a year, the conservatives say they ll labour have pledged not to raise tax on people earning less than eighty thousand pounds a year, the conservatives say they ll replace current mental health legislation in england and wales, and the liberal democrats commit to maintaining the so called triple lock on pensions, meaning they would rise by as much as wages, inflation or 2.5% whichever is highest. to get more on this, i m joined by our political correspondent ellie price. let s start with the labour party, pledges all over the place. absolutely. there will be placed after the last couple of days, that after the last couple of days, that a number of the front pages today are focusi ....
also in the next hour. more billionaires are based in the uk than ever before. brothers sri and gopi hinduja top the annual sunday times rich list only one person in the top ten was born in britain. good morning and welcome to bbc news. parties campaigning in the general election have made a series of policy announcements this morning. labour have pledged not to raise tax on people earning less than £80,000 a year, the conservatives say they ll replace current mental health legislation in england and wales, and the liberal democrats commit to maintaining the so called triple lock on pensions. to get more on this, i m joined by our political correspondent ellie price. for the labour party this morning, it s all about tax and who is going to pay more or not pay more. yes, this is a pitch to low and middle income earners and one that has ca ptu red income earners and one that has captured headlines in the papers. those are the policies capturing the imagination, if you ....
between emmanuel macron and marine le pen to be their next president. finally freed , the 82 nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by islamist militants three years ago. also in the next hour. more billionaires are based in the uk than ever before. brothers sri and gopi hinduja top the annual sunday times rich list, only one person in the top ten was born in britain. stories about charlie chaplin s extraordinary life are told in witness in half an hour on bbc news. good morning and welcome to bbc news. parties campaigning in the general election have made a series of policy announcements this morning. labour have pledged not to raise tax on people earning less that 80 thousand pounds a year, the conservatives say they ll replace current mental health legislation in england and wales, and the liberal democrats commit to maintaining the so called wtriple lock on pensions. looking at all of this, studying what they are saying is our political correspondent, eliot prize. let s st ....
our public services. the policy making sound relatively familiar. no increase in national insurance, no increase in income tax. the conservatives made that pledge at the last election. so far, theresa may has ruled out a rising vat but not committed to the previous manifesto pledge of not raising income tax or a national insurance contributions. today, the tories said there was a black hole in labour s proposals. they re going back to type, they are always going to raise taxes, they will start at £80,000, you will brink and they will bring it on again. it s the same old labour, raising taxes and hurting aspiration. the lib dem leader, tim farron, was on a fun run today. his party said labour s tax pledges were not worth the paper they were written on. there is no clear figure they were written on. there is no clearfigure for how they were written on. there is no clear figure for how much tax the top 5% of earners pay. but official figures show the top 1% contribute mor ....