Electioncast: Taxation Trilemmas

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the Conservative Party’s internal betting inquiry and whether the main parties have “ducked” addressing stark choices over public finances.

Adam, Chris and Alex chat about the accusation by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that the Conservatives and Labour are engaging in a “conspiracy of silence” over the state of public finances. Also, Rishi Sunak says the Conservative Party is carrying out internal inquiries “in parallel” with the gambling commission.

And BBC Ireland correspondent Sara Girvin speaks to us from Northern Ireland about how the Cost of Living and Brexit are impacting voting. Apply to join us on election night: https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/newscast-all-nighter You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Elliot Ryder. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, Chris and Alex are here.
0:06.6	Hello, you too.
0:07.6	Hello, hello.
0:08.8	Shall we revive newscasts most successful ever gimmick, even though we've hardly really done it.
0:14.4	Yes. The remoter voter. The inbox is vibrating with entries for a remoter voter and in case
0:22.2	you haven't remembered the vast catalog of newscast
0:25.0	gimmicks.
0:26.0	This is people who listen to newscast who've applied for postal votes because they're going
0:30.4	to be away from home in interesting places.
0:33.3	And we've decided to give it the big budget treatment. Would you like to hear the concepts I come up with?
0:47.0	Yes.
0:48.0	So we're going to break it down into remote voter.
0:52.0	So somebody who's going to be traveling a bit of away from home but
0:54.8	not hugely far away. Then we'll have remoter voter, someone who's going further and then
1:00.4	we will have remotest voter who's the person who's going to the furthest long, the far-flung places.
1:05.0	Love it.
1:06.0	So let's play our remote voter. Okay, I've got remote voter here, Will, who says, I've posted my vote, however weirdly, I've had to do it as I'm taking 30 of my year
1:25.2	sevens to Parliament.
1:26.8	So I'm not a million miles away from Cardiff on Election Day, but ironic that I'm going to be
1:30.8	at the heart of our democracy when I should be voting.
1:33.4	I wonder how quiet Parliament will be on election day.
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