I'm Neil Patterson. Welcome to the Sky News Daily, where it is another massive day on the campaign trail, especially for Rishi Sunak.

Now, he launched the Conservatives General Election Manifesto today at Silverstone Racetrack of all places.

But do not worry, despite the almost overwhelming urge, I will endeavour not to include any motorsport-related puns.

No promises, however. By way of contrast, the Prime Minister was absolutely chock-full of

pledges and commitments, most notably when it came to tax.

Our national insurance tax cuts are already worth £900 to the average worker.

And we will keep cutting taxes in the coming years, meaning that by 2027 we will have halved

national insurance to 6%.

That is a tax cut, my friends, worth £1,300 to the average worker.

So in a moment we'll go through the policies,

the numbers and the rhetoric with our economics and data editor,

and a former Conservative advisor turned to PR guru.

But let's start with our political correspondent Dan McCaffrey,

who was there at the manifesto launch today.

Can I just dwell for a second

on the choice of venue that the

Conservatives had for this? Silverston, a race track. They brought a bunch of journalists there

who are awfully fond of deploying analogies and metaphors to describe the, here we go, here's one

for you, car crash that this campaign has been at times for the Conservatives.

What on earth were they thinking about doing it there?

You know what? It was a very good question.

I think numerous times today I talked about the Conservative Party being in the pits,

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