Labour and Tories clash over £2,000 tax claim

Rishi Sunak's claim Labour will increase taxes by £2,000 per household was one of the hot topics of his head-to-head ITV showdown with Sir Keir Starmer.

Initial analysis by the charity Full Fact also said the prime minister's claim was based on Conservative estimates of Labour spending plans and covers a long list of policy announcements.produced by the Conservatives. That document makes a series of assumptions to estimate the cost that might be attached to potential Labour policies.

That would be around £2,094 for every working household, the Conservatives’ document claimed. There are 18.4 million working households in the UK. “What they’ve put in for this analysis is a mental health policy that isn’t the Labour Party’s policy, he’s put in one of his own policies. He’s asked the civil service to cost it.Labour insisted the report "was commissioned for a now discredited Policy Exchange report and has been misquoted on a number of occasions by the Prime Minister, Chancellor, and Energy Secretary.

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