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Hello and welcome to coffee House Shots The Spectators Daily Politics

broadcast I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Hill.

Well it's a week of political speeches and today it's Jeremy Hunt's turn.

James can you talk us through the latest tax attack?

Sure so this is really a response to Kiestamma's speech yesterday

when he was talking about his different pledge cards and of course the one thing missing

from that was tax really when we talked about economic stability on yesterday's podcast but the fact

tax wasn't mentioned was something that the Treasury are now trying to seize bond all the Conservatives

and the Treasury are trying to do and what they're really doing is costing Labour's figures.

It's something we see time and again of staples of different election campaigns

and really go through the various promises that Labour have made

and produce a sort of fundamental critique of them

by looking at how much they're projected to cost.

Some of those probably have more merit than others.

I think for instance, you know, if you look at the decarbonisation plans by 2030, that's a very

ambitious target and there's definitely questions to be answered about that.

Others, you know, labor's complaint

that these are going to be quite political, has much more merit about, but really it was a response

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