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What was said, and which frame it usedEvery item the dashboard counts, newest first. The marked words are the phrases that made it count; the tags say whether it used an opposing frame, an MMT-consistent idea, or named MMT. These are keyword matches: whether an item endorses or attacks an idea is shown once our classifier's accuracy is published.
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Couples would be able to leave £1m and family home exempt from inheritance tax under Tories, says Badenoch – as it happened
…ritish. “We are not like them. We are different. We are the Conservative Party.” But apart from that, it was a long, rather disconnected lecture setting out the case for a Tory party that believes in living within our means against a Labour Party that wants to tax, spend and borrow. From Steve Richards, the writer and broadcaster A well delivered speech from K Badenoch.. but sums don’t remotely add up in her ‘something for everyone’ speech..and the ‘something’ was largely targeted at a few wealthy voters. She’s right to rule out any deal with Reform..but that means her future depends on Refo…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’
…incredibly wealthy” people, Badenoch switched the subject to the amount spent on benefits for people not working She replied: This policy is about people at that cliff edge. What is not a good use of taxpayers money is paying thousands and thousands of people who can work, not to work. Kemi Badenoch recorded her interview with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday. It is playing out on the programme now. In it, Badenoch defended her plan to extend free childcare to high earners. (See 9.08am.) She said: What we want to see is that people who work harder don’t get punished for doing so. If you earn £100…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes
…king the size of the state. As with “maxing out the credit card”, it forms part of the inquisition every time a minister goes on the TV or radio with a new spending measure: “That’s all very well but how are you going to pay for it?” Burnham is committed to re-industrialising Britain, but to do so he will have to break with the neoliberal convention that it is not the job of the government to pick winners. As the prime minister should point out, China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea have all built up their manufacturing strength by picking winners, and Britain could do the same. Indeed, the o…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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‘Visible and engaged’: Burnham in listening mode with businesses at Labour party conference
…ay about the budget, despite striking a markedly different tone to Burnham’s “in hock” comment from a year earlier – insisting that he and the prime minister were “in lockstep” in their commitment to balance the books. “There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Shevaun Haviland, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said Healey’s speech was “significant” because the chancellor had acknowledged that private enterprise was vital for helping the UK economy to grow. However, she warned that companies still f…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – as it happened
…he Labour MP Liam Byrne still gets criticised for the note he left in the Treasury after the 2010 election to his Tory successor saying “there is no money”. The note (often wrongly remember as saying there is no money left) was a joke, written when Byrne expected to be succeeded by a Tory with whom he had a friendly relationship, but the Lib Dem David Laws got the job instead. Laws gave it George Osborne and David Cameron and they spent years quoting it as alleged proof that Gordon Brown had bankrupted the country. In his speech today John Healey used a similar line. I did not quote it earli…
- MMT-consistent idea: Deficit myth
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Healey offers upbeat vision but sheds little light on how it will be paid for
…ll in some of his own personal story to those outside the hall less familiar with a man who, he said, had given his first Labour conference speech a full 40 years ago, in 1986. He spoke of his wife, Jackie, whom he became engaged with a fortnight after their first meeting at a Labour function, and his first job as a pot washer in a pub, which taught him the joys of a hand-pulled pint. Yet he threw little light on how he was approaching a budget now exactly a month away, other than to recommit to Reeves’s determination to balance the books, which will take more than optimism and a good story.
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Healey signals welfare reform push and new apprenticeships scheme
…rogressive to allow a bigger and bigger benefits bill and a system which offers an income but doesn’t offer a future. So, once again, as a Labour government it falls to us to act.” Insisting he would balance the books while fleshing out Andy Burnham’s plans to strengthen “growth in every postcode”, Healey said he and the prime minister were in lockstep in their commitment to balance the books. “That commitment is so important. There is nothing progressive about losing control because it’s always working people who pay for it,” he said. Against a backdrop of jitters in financial markets as th…
- Opposing frame: Household budget