LBC Election 2019

This is Sheila Fogarty and I'm Ian Dale.

Thanks for downloading the second episode of The Daily Trail, all part of LBC's Election 2019 coverage.

Each day we're going to look at what the political parties have been up to and we'll try to make sense of it all or just confuse ourselves and you even more maybe. In today's episode, we're going to look at what the political parties have been up to, and we'll try to make sense of it all, or just confuse ourselves and you even more, maybe.

In today's episode, we look at the Labour Manifesto launch

and touch on Home Secretary Pretty Patel's comments that governments are not to blame for poverty.

And listen to the moment where Ian Dale is almost reduced to tears.

I've just come off air, and I must say,

I've had a moment during the election, I think, for the first time.

Have you?

An on-air moment for the election during this election for the first time.

Do you remember back in 2017 when Theresa May announced the so-called dementia tax?

And it was not well received, shall we say. I was on air at the time. And I mean, it was the first time I'd seen the calls list just light up like a Christmas tree, you know, non-stop, three hours of faithful Tory voters saying, no, too far.

I had a touch of it today about Labor's announcement on the corporation tax today.

People either planning, had been planning to vote Labor, or were still planning to vote Labor, but there was a butt attached.

They had to really look into

this detail. And for three hours, really, we touched on housing as well, but for three hours,

we got so many calls from people saying that this hike incorporation tax would make them think

again about labor, would make them think again about how they could grow

their company. So concerns around it really. And also some of those people were on salaries

where there would be additional income tax to be paid. They felt, you know, if they employed people,

they had national insurance contributions, which is obviously going to remain in place.

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