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General election 2024 live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in first weekend of campaign - BBC News General election 2024 live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in first weekend of campaign - BBC News
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Earlier today, Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was heard explaining how she would manage the economy if her party wins the election on 4 July. Laura Kuenssberg
We haven't seen Jeremy Hunt, the man she wants to replace in 11 Downing Street, on the campaign trail so far this weekend but he has given an interview to the Telegraph. Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
He says if Rishi Sunak is successful at the ballot box this summer, the Conservatives would continue to cut National Insurance - which they've already reduced twice this year. Has it been a shaky start to Rishi Sunak's general election campaign?
Hunt also suggests that he would seek to reduce taxes for people earning between £100,000 and £125,000 and says he "hoped" the next Tory government would be able to cut inheritance tax. "Damn right!", to use the man himself's phrase - although he was talking about whether he would win.
The public finances are under strain and whoever is elected will need to carefully balance how much the government spends against how much it brings in. Has his rival Sir Keir Starmer's election begun smoothly? I'd say, "Damn right!" to that too.
Read more about Hunt and Reeves battle over tax cuts in this election here But both men know there is an awful long way to go before a single vote is cast - and perhaps that's because they have some things in common.
They have other things in common too.
Both leaders inspire unusual loyalty among their teams. They are often praised by those who work with them as being warmer than they appear on camera: staffers describe them as decent family men, who take their jobs incredibly seriously and work incredibly hard.
They became MPs in the same year - 2015 - after successful careers in other fields.
The Labour leader's first job was clearing stones from fields on a farm, before studying law and reaching the top of that profession.
The Tory leader helped his mum in her pharmacy, but his first paid job was a waiter in a restaurant, before university and then a highflying career in finance.
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