Campaign catch-up: the Tories’ ‘kitchen sink’ manifesto
Political Fix
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has pledged more than £17bn in tax cuts as the Tories attempt to revive their stalled election campaign. But will it be enough to override questions about the party’s record in office, or the prime minister’s D-Day disaster? The FT’s Lucy Fisher fillets the Tories’ manifesto promises with colleagues Stephen Bush and Jim Pickard. Plus, what to make of the Lib Dem election pledges and their leader’s attention-grabbing stunts?
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.0 | Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK. |
| 0:25.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. Promises, it's |
| 0:35.0 | it's Manifesto Week. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to Political Fix from the FT with me Lucy Fisher. This week the parties are |
| 0:44.4 | rolling out their plans on tax and spend. So far we've heard from the Tories and |
| 0:48.8 | the Lib Dems. And to shed light on it all I'm joined by the F.T. Stephen, |
| 0:53.8 | Hi, Stephen. Hi, Lucy. |
| 0:54.8 | And political fix regular Jim Picard. |
| 0:56.7 | Hi Jim. |
| 0:57.3 | Hello. |
| 0:59.3 | So, um, both let's kick off with the Conservatives. |
| 1:03.0 | Ritchie Sunak launched his manifesto at Silverstone, the home of British Formula One Grand Prix. |
| 1:09.0 | I can see the headlines writing themselves. |
| 1:12.0 | Will this help him zoom ahead or will the wheels come off? |
| 1:16.0 | Stephen, it's been called a bit of a kitchen sink manifesto, an alphabety spaghetti of |
| 1:20.8 | policies. What in it has caught your eye? |
| 1:24.0 | It's really a question. I think the thing which most |
| 1:29.7 | jumped out to me, unfortunately not in a positive way, is the 17 billion pounds of tax cuts, |
| 1:36.4 | which really does add to the kind of petrol station flowers vibe of the conservative |
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