Electioncast: The Conservative Manifesto
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the Conservative manifesto launch as Rishi Suank promises a further cut in National Insurance. Unveiling the party’s plans from Silverstone race track, the PM said he would "scrap entirely the main rate of self-employed National Insurance” and that the Conservatives would "keep cutting taxes in the coming years”. Does this all add up? Adam and Chris are joined by BBC Economics Editor Faisal Islam and Newsnight Political Editor Nick Watt. 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 Elliot Ryder and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I just want to start today's episode |
| 0:07.0 | with a heartfelt apology. |
| 0:09.5 | I wouldn't say fulsome because as Laura and Paddy |
| 0:11.6 | discussed in a previous episode of newscastast that word is misused all the time. |
| 0:15.6 | But on the previous episode of newscast I said that Robert Peel, the Prime Minister in 1834 who published the Tamworth Manifesto that his home has now been turned into a theme park and I said it was Chessington World of Adventures. |
| 0:29.7 | I had misremembered my theme parks. It's actually Drayton Manor. I am happy to correct the record and |
| 0:36.6 | I am happy to apologize to all theme park fans who pointed this out. Hopefully that ends the matter. On happier news, lots of |
| 0:45.6 | newscasters got in touch when Chris and I spectacularly failed to come up with a |
| 0:49.6 | name for this week when we're getting loads of party manifestos published one after the |
| 0:53.7 | other but plenty of newscasters jumped into the breach to save us. Nick who describes |
| 0:59.5 | himself as an addicted listener said how about the newscast |
| 1:03.6 | manifesto all? |
| 1:04.9 | And he then goes the extra mile and says |
| 1:06.4 | you could decorate the studio with relevant party-colored bunting. |
| 1:10.0 | Then John, who says, great show, |
| 1:12.0 | thank you, John, said with festival season approaching, |
| 1:15.0 | sensing a little theme here, how about you call it the Manifestenberry? |
| 1:18.9 | Love it, or Festenberry. And then he goes the extra mile too and says you can have a different |
| 1:25.8 | party headlining the main stage each day. Well John we kind of are doing that because today |
| 1:31.1 | saw the launch of the Conservative Party manifesto which I will discuss |
| 1:34.7 | with the gang on this very episode of Newscast. |
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