Election Extra: Sunak’s £2,000 ‘lie’
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 1:25.0 | This is the Guardian. From the Guardians today in focus this is election extra with me Lucy Hoff this evening. Did Rischisunach lie about Labour's tax plan 12 times in last night's TV debate? |
| 1:49.0 | He would put up everyone's taxes by 2,000 pounds. |
| 1:54.0 | What you saw last night was a Prime Minister with his back against the wall, |
| 1:59.4 | desperately trying to defend 14 years of failure, resorting, and it was a flash of his character, an insight |
| 2:07.0 | into his character, to lies. Today I'm joined by the Guardians Archie Bland, editor of the election edition newsletter, |
| 2:18.0 | so Archie for anyone who decided to pop on the French Open or Love Island last night not to tune into this first debate of the campaign season. |
| 2:27.0 | What happened and what particularly was this attack line about tax towards Starma? |
| 2:32.0 | I think the thing about these debates is quite quickly they get overwhelmed by all of the discussion about the debates. |
| 2:37.0 | And that has meant really that the most consequential thing to come out of it has been what Rishi Sunak had to say about |
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