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As Harper told Derbyshire, this also means if someone only has the basic state pension, the Tories will make sure they will not pay any tax on it.
The TV host asked: “So you’re unfreezing the freeze that Rishi Sunak brought in, and I’m just wondering if that’s part of the reason you want another five years, to correct the mistakes you’ve made in the past 14?”which cost us £400bn to protect millions of jobs and thousands of businesses, and that has to be paid for.”Derbyshire then pointed out that his party claim they can fund this by cracking down on tax avoidance. She asked: “So how come there is still £2.
He said the “tax gap” between what the government could collect and what is actually collected “smaller now than it ever has been” because of Conservatives crackdown. “We’re going to carry on cracking down on evasion and avoidance,” he claimed, saying this would raise £6bn – £2.4bn of which the Tories want to use to protect the pensioners.Victoria Derbyshire,"So you're unfreezing the freeze that Rishi Sunak broke in..
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