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		</div><p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed to lack any knowledge of the overall tax burden rising under Conservative plans, despite party figures predicting such an outcome.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister said a majority Conservative government wants to deliver a February budget which will cut taxes for working families, and stressed this would be achieved under his plans.</p>
<p>But he said he was “not aware of the data” described when told the manifesto would, overall, raise tax.</p>
<p>A costings document released alongside the party’s manifesto shows tax cuts would amount to £3.195 billion in 2020/21 compared to tax increases of £3.32 billion.</p>
<p>The sources of revenue table is also higher in subsequent years compared to the tax cuts figures, with the pledge to maintain corporation tax at 19% the main driver of revenue raising.</p>
<p>A party spokesman later said the manifesto would not put up personal taxes while revenue raised from corporation tax would be put towards public services.</p>
<p>Told the Conservative Party manifesto would raise tax overall, Mr Johnson replied:<em> “I don’t know what you’re talking about – we’re cutting taxes on business rates, we’re cutting national insurance contributions for everybody in the country paying their NICs.”</em></p>
<p>Told again the manifesto would overall raise taxes and such details were in the party’s costings document, the PM said: <em>“We’re cutting taxes on national insurance contributions and on business rates and I’m certainly not aware of the data you describe.</em></p>
<p><em>“We’re cutting taxes and in our first budget we propose to do more to cut taxes.”</em> Pressed further in a later question, Mr Johnson told reporters:<em> “We’re not going to begin in the first budget by cutting taxes on absolutely everything.</em></p>
<p><em>“We’re going to begin by cutting taxes for those who need the most help with the cost of living.</em></p>
<p><em>“That’s why we’re doing things like cutting national insurance first because everybody benefits from it.”</em></p>
<p>He reiterated his national insurance plans and increases to the minimum wage.</p>
<p>A Conservative spokesman said:<em> “Our manifesto does not propose increasing taxes on UK resident companies and would not put up personal taxes for hard-working Brits.</em></p>
<p><em>“We have been very clear that we are pausing future corporation tax cuts, and will invest this money into our NHS.</em></p>
<p><em>“We will also introduce a surcharge on those buying UK property from abroad, increase the immigration health surcharge so everyone contributes to our NHS and put up taxes on plastic bags to help our environment.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Johnson also faced a question about whether he agrees with strikes on public transport.</p>
<p>He replied: <em>“I do think it’s absurd that critical transport mass-transit systems should be capable of being put out of actions by strikes, and other countries around the world have minimum service requirements for public transport – and that’s what I want to see.”</em></p>
<p>Mr Johnson later deflected a further question about whether he would face a grilling from Andrew Neil on the BBC, something Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has done.</p>
<p>He said:<em> “I’m the first Prime Minister to have done two, or about to do two one-on-one leadership debates, several hours’ worth of phone-ins, endless press conferences and interviews with all sorts of BBC people called Andrew.</em></p>
<p><em>“And I will continue to submit to the interrogation of the media.”</em></p>
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