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General election live Angela Rayner to face no further police action
The police say "council tax and personal tax do not fall into the jurisdiction of policing", and that it has shared information with HMRC.

Remember a little earlier we were wondering where Labour’s claim of £64bn of unfunded tax cuts promised by the Conservatives came from?

Well, Labour got back to us to explain their working.

It starts with the £46bn from the aspiration to abolish National Insurance, which we’ve already written about.

The next two “pledges” come from an interview Jeremy Hunt has given to the Telegraph.

The chancellor described inheritance tax as “profoundly anti-Conservative”, but did not say whether abolishing it would be in the manifesto.

And he said that the distortions in the tax system for people earning between £60,000 and £125,000, such as the withdrawal of the personal allowance and child benefit, are “bad economically” and said a Conservative government would try to correct them.

Labour has costed those at £7.5bn and £6.5bn respectively, although we do not know what aspects of them are actually going to be Tory manifesto pledges for the next Parliament.

And the rest of the money comes from another Telegraph interview at the start of April, in which energy secretary Claire Coutinho said she was considering removing £4bn of green levies from household energy bills.

Remember, we only have a few weeks to wait until the Conservatives release their manifesto, together with how they plan to pay for the measures they include.

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