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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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Laura Kuenssberg We're not even half way through the first weekend of the general election campaign and we've already seen some significant developments.
Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg Here's everything you need to know to get you through the evening:
Has it been a shaky start to Rishi Sunak's general election campaign? Labour says it would like to extend the right to vote to over-16s if it wins the next election - a policy that Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says he's also "welcomed"
"Damn right!", to use the man himself's phrase - although he was talking about whether he would win. Jeremy Hunt has indicated tax cuts will be part of the Conservative offer to the electorate. The chancellor told the Telegraph cuts to National Insurance and inheritance tax are all on the cards if they win
Has his rival Sir Keir Starmer's election begun smoothly? I'd say, "Damn right!" to that too. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says the party would seek to reduce the tax burden on working families while meeting voters in London
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. Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom have joined the exodus of Tory MPs announcing they are standing down ahead of the election
They have other things in common too. Sir Keir Starmer has agreed to debate Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on TV as part of the campaign
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. Labour will have to take on expelled former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is standing as an independent in Islington
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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