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Money Box election 2019 special

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2825 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

With fewer than two weeks to go until the 2019 General Election, Money Box takes a personal finance look at the manifesto pledges of the four main parties. Among the subjects covered are issues like workers’ rights, benefits and taxes. Hear the Chancellor, the shadow Chancellor, as well as Liberal Democrat and SNP spokesmen on finance, talk through their promises and how they’d bring about the changes they want to see.

Presenter: Paul Lewis Producers: Eleanor Briggs, Dan Whitworth and Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon

Transcript

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0:35.0

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0:41.2

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0:47.3

Hello, this is Moneybox's pre-election podcast. I talk to four people who could have your financial future in their hands. These are the men, and they are all men, who could be

0:51.9

Chancellor, depending how you vote on the 12th of December.

0:55.4

We asked them not to mention other parties,

0:58.0

but to give us their policies on personal finance, tax, benefits, rights at work.

1:03.3

You can find the plans of all the parties in the election

1:05.7

by searching online for BBC News Manifesto Guide.

1:09.8

In alphabetical order of party name,

1:11.9

here's the man who would be the Conservative Chancellor and is now,

1:15.5

Sajid Javid.

1:16.6

We will have a triple tax lock,

1:18.7

which means we will not increase the rates of national insurance,

1:22.4

income tax or VAT.

1:24.0

Now these are the rates, they're not anything else.

1:26.5

Are you going to freeze the allowances as well, the 12.5,000 personal allowance, the 50,000 higher rate allowance? Well, the commitments are on the rates. And in fact, what we will be doing with allowances when it comes to national insurance. We actually want to cut the amount that people pay in national insurance. and we're clear that we will actually increase

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