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Welcome to a live recording

Welcome to a live recording of coffee house shots readers here in a venue just around from our office before we go for a

G&T later on.

So we are almost a week from the general election and I will show you some slides the first slide is going to show you because typically we've got the bookmakers odds which is now taken on greater resonance now that they're all they're all bookbooking on these things right? Now, this is what we've learnt

from the various manifestors about tax.

The OBO forecast, that was Jeremy Hunt's last budget.

Now, the Tories are saying they were taxed less than they originally threatened to tax us in March.

That graph is still going upwards, so the Conservatives would increase tax.

So every time Ritchie-Sinnik is saying lower taxes of us, higher tax with

labor, sadly it's just simply not true and I suspect almost every single vote

who knows is not true as well. Labor intends to tax a little bit more than mandatory is intended to,

although not that much more, and we're talking by the end of five years,

0.3% of GDP more than Hunt's original plan.

And by the way, I take Hunt's plan a lot more seriously,

but I take what the Tory said during the manifesto,

because by that stage they would know

and they'd be never implementing it.

And then we've got the good old Libdems taxing, even then relatively constrained,

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