The Tory manifesto is out - but what's actually in it?

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

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Politics, Government, News

4.3 • 179 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Tories have launched their manifesto - and they'll be hoping it goes down a lot better than the one Theresa May delivered during the 2017 election. That manifesto was remembered for the social care policy which damaged her campaign. So what's in the 2019 edition? We take a look and speak to Robert, who says the Conservatives could be taking a risk given the party has chosen not to compete with the spending pledges in the Labour manifesto that Jeremy Corbyn announced last week. On the podcast throughout this week, we'll be hearing from ITV's political correspondents based around the country to hear about the key battles happening where they are, and how they could shape the overall result. Today we hear from Hannah Miller in north west England and Martin Stew in the north east - both sat in cars hiding from the rain when they speak to us, in a reminder that life reporting on the election campaign trail isn't always that glamorous. We’ll bring you a new episode every weekday around 5pm throughout the election campaign. Don’t forget to subscribe - and if you like what you hear, do rate us and leave a review. Get in touch with the Calling Peston team - contact @DanielHewittITV, @ShehabKhan and @Peston. For the latest election news, go to itv.com/news and follow @ITVNewsPolitics on Twitter.

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0:00.0	It's week four. It's four weeks until Christmas and it's episode 14 of Calling Peston,
0:08.8	the podcast that unlike Santa Claus delivers every day of the week. I'm Daniel Hewitt. He,
0:13.7	hello, is Shihab Khan. And on today's episode, we'll be ringing Robert Pestan to get his take
0:18.2	on the Conservative Party Manifesto. Plus all this week, we'll be finding out what is happening on the ground from every corner
0:24.8	of the United Kingdom, speaking to every single one of ITV's political correspondence from
0:29.5	every region of the country, starting today with Hannah Miller in the Northwest and Martin
0:33.9	Stu in the northeast. But first, his Shihab with a 60-second rundown of what's happening on Monday,
0:39.3	the 25th of November.
0:40.9	At the start of week four, the Politico Pole of Poles has the Tories 14 points ahead of
0:46.3	Labour on 43%, Labour on 28, and the Lib Dems on 15.
0:51.3	Today, the Tories have come under fire for their pledge to recruit 50,000 more nurses.
0:56.1	The party said 18,500 of that 50,000 would come by encouraging existing nurses to stay on
1:02.9	or come back to the workforce. Labour has called the plan fake and deceitful.
1:08.2	Jeremy Corbyn has been in Derbyshire pushing his plan to spend £58 billion to compensate
1:13.3	the Waspy Women, which stands for women against state pension inequality, correct.
1:18.9	And Labour has also pledged to take on rogue landlords.
1:21.8	Tony Blair has been speaking today and he attacked both Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson,
1:26.0	saying it wouldn't be good if either won a majority.
1:29.0	And after Alistair Campbell revealed on this podcast that he would be campaigning tactically for candidates other than Labour ones,
1:35.7	Mr Blair today also backed tactical voting on a case-by-case basis, though he said he would be voting for the Labour Party.
1:43.5	Shehab Khan, ladies and gentlemen.
1:46.0	Thank you. Thank you very much.
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