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Labour is promising not to raise income tax for anyone earning less | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
than ?80,000 a year, as part of an election pledge | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
The Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, said those earning | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
over that amount would be asked to pay "a bit more" to help pay | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
The Conservatives say they have no plans to raise taxes, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
but have so far refused to rule it out completely. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Here's our political correspondent Ellie Price. | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
A policy pledge to capture the imagination of low and middle-income | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
voters - and the newspaper headlines. Labour say 95% of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
taxpayers will benefit from what the Shadow Chancellor described as a | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
personal tax guarantee. It will be going to that you will not have an | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
increase in income tax or VAT or national insurance. And for those | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
above ?80,000, we will ask you to pay a modest bit more. Why? To fund | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
our public services. The policy-making sound relatively | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
familiar... No increase in national insurance, no increase in income | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
tax... The Conservatives made that pledge at the last election. So far, | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Theresa May has ruled out a rising VAT but not committed to the | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
previous manifesto pledge of not raising income tax or a national | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
insurance contributions. Today, the Tories said there was a black hole | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
in Labour's proposals. They're going back to type, they are always going | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
to raise taxes, they will start at ?80,000, you will brink and they | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
will bring it on again. It's the same old Labour, raising taxes and | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
hurting aspiration. The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, was on a fun run | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
today. His party said Labour's tax pledges were not worth the paper | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
they were written on. There is no clear figure for how much tax the | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
top 5% of earners pay. But official figures show the top 1% contribute | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
more than a quarter of all income tax paid in Britain. You can't get | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
that much more by putting a few pence on income tax for the highest | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
earners. If you really want to raise significant amounts of money to | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
support public services, I'm afraid it cannot just be a few people, it | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
has to be all of us. But announcing the pledge today, John McDonnell did | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
not rule out introducing a new higher rate of tax for the highest | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
earners. He insisted the decision would be made when the parties | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
manifesto is launched within the next few weeks. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
The Conservatives say reforming mental health legislation in England | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
and Wales will be a priority, if they win the election. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
Theresa May said a new law would tackle discrimination | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
and the unnecessary detention of vulnerable people. | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
There would also be a boost to the number of mental health | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
When she entered Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister | :03:05. | :03:17. | |
last year, Theresa May described the lack of sufficient mental health | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
Now, in what the Conservative campaign | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
describes as its first major domestic policy announcement, the | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Tories have pledged to employ an additional 10,000 mental health | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
staff in the NHS, to give more legal protection to all people suffering | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
from mental health issues, and to make mental health first aid | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
If you have a child that has severe mental | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
health problems, and you find that child, | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
instead of getting treated by the NHS, actually ends up | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
thing for the child, it'll probably make their condition worse. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
But it's also very bad for the police as | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
The Tories say they will rip up the Mental Health Act amid concerns | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
it is allowing the widespread detention | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
The Liberal Democrats say the Conservatives delayed such | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
reforms while in the coalition, and failed | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
to fully fund children's mental health care. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
When I come across families who are waiting desperately | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
for their children to receive the care they need, they feel badly | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
So, for me, it's empty rhetoric at the moment. | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
Labour says there are 6,000 fewer mental health nurses than in 2010, | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Health care charities welcome the attention | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Daily at Sane, we hear of people struggling to get help, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
who are being turned away and neglected. | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
We've lost over 25,000 beds since 2000. | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
The main focus may be on Brexit, but health care is also a key battle | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
French voters are going to the polls today to choose | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
The second and final round of the election pits | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron against | :05:07. | :05:07. | |
More than 50,000 police officers have been deployed | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
Our correspondent Hugh Schofield is at a polling station in Paris. | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
Yes, in the and a miserable day here in Paris, but but does not seem to | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
be putting off the voters over turning up at a fairly steady stream | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
at this school. Overall, the government tells us that 28% of the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
population have voted by midday, which is broadly in line with what | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
happened in the first round last time out. It indicates a 80% turnout | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
overall, which is fairly good. The choice is pretty stark, between the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
nationalist, protectionist Marine Le Pen and the pro-business, pro-EU | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Emmanuel Macron. Viewers need to know that there is flash photography | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
in this coming piece. Emmanuel Macron was the first | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
of the candidates to vote this morning, at a voting station | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
near his home in the seaside With him, his wife and former | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
schoolteacher Brigitte. A short time later, Marie Le Pen | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
was also in front of the cameras in the northern working-class town | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
of Henin-Beaumont, one of the strongholds of her | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Front National party. Turnout will be one of the things | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
to look out for today. Neither of the main parties, | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
the Socialists and the Republicans, has a runner in the race, | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
and that may deter some voters. Also, some on the radical left view | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Mr Macron and Ms Le Pen But in general, participation | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
in presidential elections I think it's very important, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
particularly this year, We know what happened in the US, | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
the Brexit is on its way, so it's very, very, very | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
important to vote. Sorry, my heart is actually | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
beating really fast now. Yeah, we have to vote, because, | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
I mean, for democracy, The Champs-Elysees attack just | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
before the first round, Now, polling stations close here in | :07:12. | :07:36. | |
Paris at eight at this evening, seven o'clock in Britain. Very soon | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
after that if not immediately, we should get a clear indication of who | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
has one. Emmanuel Macron, as all the standards have been showing, is the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
clear favourite. But let's see. Hugh Schofield in Paris, thank you very | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
much. 82 Nigerian schoolgirls have arrived | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
in the capital, Abuja, where they're due to meet | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
the country's president, after being freed by | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
the Islamist group Boko Haram. The girls were among 276 taken | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
captive in the north-eastern They are the second group of Chibok | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
girls to be freed, and were released Around 50,000 people | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
are being evacuated from the German city of Hannover later, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
so that experts can remove five The bombs were found | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
during work at a building site. Some 2,500 firefighters, rescuers, | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
and police officers are being deployed to help with the operation, | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
which effects around a tenth deployed to help with the operation, | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
which affects around a tenth It's an historic day at Lord's | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
today, where Ireland are playing international cricket | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
for the first time. They are playing England | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
in the second one-day Ben Croucher has been | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
watching the action. Up to mighty London came | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
an Irishman one day. This is how far Irish cricket has | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
come, a first game at Lord's, England soon showed | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
them the way around. Alex Hales and Jason Roy looked | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
in no mood to extend the hospitality out in the middle, | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
scampering to 49. Ireland had a man who was equally | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
at home here, though. Tim Murtagh has played county | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
cricket at Lord's for a decade, Not long followed by the second - | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Barry McCarthy tempted Roy to drive Which, in turn, brought England's | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
captain to the crease. Eoin Morgan, born in Dublin, | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
soon making his native countrymen play fetch around | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
the English capital. If England continue to score | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
big and score fast, Ireland could discover | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
they still have a distance to travel You can see more on all of today's | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
is at 5:35pm - goodbye for now. Hello. A very good afternoon to you. | :09:49. | :10:13. | |
This week is going to give us a lesson in how changes in the wind | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
direction and where our air is coming from can bring about the | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
changes in | :10:20. | :10:20. |