Claims extracted
24
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
12%
3 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Publisher signals
68/100
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The Tories have vowed to scrap Labour's 'mansion tax' if they win the next general election.
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they → vow → election
Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith branded the looming charge – which will cost up to £7,500 a year for owners of properties valued at more than £2million – 'vindictive'.
In his keynote speech to the Conservative conference in Birmingham, Mr Griffith warned the tax – due to take effect in April 2028 – would be 'simply unaffordable' for retired people in houses bought decades ago that have since soared in value, and that it would also hit commuters living in 'ordinary homes'.
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it → brand → homes
He vowed that a future Tory government would abolish what he rebranded the Family Homes Tax as part of his plan to get rid of a different tax in every Budget, emulating Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor Nigel Lawson.
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he → vow → Lawson
Mr Griffith said last night: 'People who have worked hard to buy their home and have lived in it for years will face huge tax bills, and many will have no way to pay.
'
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many → say → way
Labour's own figures say it will knock value off people's homes, and will raise less than 1 per cent of what council tax brings in.
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tax → say → what
No finance director would sign off a scheme that builds a whole new bureaucracy to raise so little.
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that → sign → little
'[Chancellor] John Healey can drop this tax in his Budget in three weeks' time.
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Healey → drop → time
In his speech, Mr Griffith said Labour pretend the 'vindictive raid on family homes' is a mansion tax, but in reality 'it will hit people here in Birmingham, in Manchester, and those living in ordinary homes making long commutes to our capital city'.
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it → say → city
Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith pledged in his conference speech to scrap Labour's mansion tax
Mr Griffith pictured preparing for his party conference address in Birmingham yesterday
He went on: 'For many, it will be simply unaffordable.
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it → pledge → many
They may have bought their home decades ago, be retired and on a fixed income...
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They → buy → income
£75,000 over ten years – where is a widow supposed to get that sort of money?
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widow → suppose → money
[Labour] don't care.'
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Labour → care → ?
The Tories say they will fund the abolition of the officially named High Value Council Tax Surcharge – which will raise just £400million a year – by cracking down on unpaid student loans taken out by foreign students.
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which → say → students
Mr Griffith added: 'I didn't come here to raise taxes.
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I → add → taxes
I came here to lower them.'
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I → come → them
He said the Conservatives had already vowed to scrap Labour's family farm tax, remove VAT from private school fees and abolish stamp duty if they return to power.
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they → say → power
'Like Nigel Lawson, it is my ambition to scrap at least one tax every Budget,' he declared.
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he → scrap → tax
But he said the Tories would only cut taxes when they can afford to do so and can fund it, amid speculation that Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will not commit to abolishing inheritance tax completely in her conference speech tomorrow.
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Badenoch → say → speech
It is thought that she will instead pledge to cut the rate at which it is levied on estates, or increase the threshold at which it kicks in.
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it → think → which
Mr Griffith admitted another tax in his sights, a Net Zero charge on packaging that could add £50 to annual grocery bills,
is 'the sort of thing the old Conservative Party went along with'.
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Party → admit → thing
He also conceded that when previously in power the Tories had created too much red tape.
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Tories → concede → tape
He added: 'Despite Ronald Reagan celebrating Britain as the birthplace of economic freedom, in government we allowed restrictions on everything from the type of car you could buy, how you could heat your home, to banning adverts for certain types of yogurt.'
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you → add → yogurt
He claimed that under Labour, Britain is close to becoming a socialist-style 'command economy', where 'the state spends 45p in every pound and millions of working-age people have their entire lifestyle funded by others'.
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lifestyle → claim → others
Mr Griffith accused Prime Minister Andy Burnham of wanting Britain to return to the imagined past of 'his socialist fever-dream of the 1970s'.
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Britain → accuse → 1970s
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