Labour's manifesto: The £8.6bn tax hike Keir Starmer hopes people won't talk about

Well, the Labour manifesto launches over. You can see them dismantling the stage literally behind me as I speak. And now, the next step. The most important step? Changing Britain. I think the big picture message here was reassurance. Keir Starmer wanted to project to the country that you could trust him with the nation's finances, you could trust him with the nation's security and you could trust him with the keys to Number 10. Stability over chaos, long term, over short term, an end to the desperate era of gestures and gimmicks. There weren't that many new announcements in this manifesto. It was a doubling down on old announcements. We did get confirmation that taxes would rise under Labour. Kirsten, are your rhetoric suggests you want taxes coming down, but this manifesto explicitly has taxes going up. There are no taxes, no tax rise that we haven't already announced. Yes, we want to bear down properly on the non Dom tax status and make sure the Super rich pay their fair share in this country. Yes, we want the oil and gas companies to pay fair tax on the massive profits that they're making. Yes, we want to make sure that private equity loopholes aren't there again for wealth. And yes, we've taken the tough decision in relation to VAT, so we will take all of those measures that proposals are for £8 billion tax rise by the fifth term of a New Labour government. But other than that, there weren't that many new details. There was something like 18 reviews mentioned in the manifesto. That essentially means come back when we're in office and we'll tell you what we'll do. The hope from Labour, I think, is that in a couple of days people aren't talking about that manifesto, that fundamentally the race remains unchanged and they keep that 20 point pole.