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With the local elections complete, Labour is still sitting comfortably ahead, with the Tories trailing behind.

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Jeremy Hunt will promise further tax cuts if the Tories win the next general election and will accuse the Labour Party of not being honest about how it will fund its spending pledges.

The chancellor will give a speech in London on Friday in which he will accuse his shadow, Rachel Reeves, of resorting to "playground politics" with her criticism of the high levels of taxation on UK households.

Mr Hunt will also reiterate his ambition to eradicate the national insurance tax - which the Tories have already slashed twice in a bid to move the polls - where they currently lag 20 points behind Labour.

Labour has attacked the policy as an unfunded £46bn pledge and likened it to the policies that saw Liz Truss resign from office after just 44 days as prime minister.

The chancellor was previously forced to make clear that his desire to abolish the "unfair" national insurance tax would not happen "any time soon".

The chancellor described national insurance as a "tax on work" and said it he believed it was "unfair that we tax work twice" when other forms of income are only taxed once.

By Beth Rigby, political editor

The stump speech, rolled up sleeves and a "first steps" six-point plan: Sir Keir Starmer is clear he isn't the heir to Blair, but he certainly evoked the spirit of Tony Blair who, back in 1997, issued a five-point pledge card with the strap line: "Keep this card and see that we keep our promises."

Sir Keir, in a rally which started the firing gun on Labour's general election campaign, effectively did the same. Having laid out five missions for government over a year ago, today he put flesh on the bones with his own six-point pledge card as a "downpayment" on what an incoming Labour government would do.

In a speech that cited change again and again, the Labour leader made clear promises he believes he can keep: deliver economic stability; cut NHS waiting times; launch a new border command; set up Great British Energy; crack down on anti-social behaviour; recruit 6,500 new teachers. 

As promises go, they were light on time frames and numbers and clearly watered down from the "five missions" of a Labour government Sir Keir outlined early last year.

You can read Beth's analysis in full below:

In January 2023, Rishi Sunak made five promises.

Since then, he and his ministers have rarely missed an opportunity to list them. In case you haven't heard, he promised to:

• Halve inflation
• Grow the economy
• Reduce debt
• Cut NHS waiting lists and times
• Stop the boats

See below how he is doing on these goals:

China's Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met in Beijing – promoting their alliance and their new ‘world order’ away from the West. 

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky’s Asia correspondent Nicole Johnston in Beijing and Sky’s Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett to discuss the highlights of the summit so far.  

Plus, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer made a key speech to lay out six pledges ahead of his election campaign. Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates joins Niall to unpick the key moments.  

Earlier, we reported as a Tory MP was ordered to repay taxpayers' money he used to fund his own party political work.

Paul Maynard, the pensions minister, was investigated by the watchdog overseeing MPs' expenses after a report by The Sunday Times.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) has ruled that he repay £1,367 in total.

Responding to this, Labour's Anneliese Dodds said: "On the day that Keir Starmer set out plans to change the country, we see yet more scandal from Rishi Sunak's exhausted and rudderless Conservative Party.

"Rishi Sunak promised professionalism, integrity and accountability at all levels. Since he took office we've seen bullying scandals, lobbying scandals and a prominent donor using vile racist and misogynistic language.

"Rishi Sunak should remove Paul Maynard as a minister, but the country also urgently needs change. 

"We need a general election."

Lord Blunkett, the former cabinet minister and Labour peer, has said his party's six new pledges are "a way of getting attention" - but there is more to come.

He told Sky News: "We're in a terrible mess, aren't we, so over-ambition would be ridiculed. 

"Let's be clear these offers - they're called doorstep offers - is just what it is. It's a way of getting attention.

"It's like a small checklist - it is by no means a policy offer because there is so much more Labour is actually going to be putting forward in the general election.

"There are no golden or silver bullets in the present climate.

"And if the Labour Party came in, promising to the electorate that they could wave a magic wand and tomorrow all the things that have gone wrong have gone right, then nobody would believe us."

Rishi Sunak said he will "of course" stay on as an MP if he loses the next general election.

The prime minister said his North Yorkshire constituency is "wonderful" and he will remain in parliament whatever the outcome when the country goes to the polls.

There has been speculation that Mr Sunak, who previously worked at a hedge fund in California, could be eyeing a job in Silicon Valley as the Tories struggle to make up ground against Labour.

But asked on ITV's Loose Women whether he would stay on the backbenches if his party loses, the MP for Richmond (Yorks) said: "Of course I'm staying. I love being an MP. I love my constituents, I love my home in North Yorkshire."

You can read more from Sky News here:

Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary, is now asked specifically about Sir Keir Starmer's six pledges - and one notable absence.

Sophy Ridge points out that defence wasn't on the Labour leader's list, despite him saying defence and security would be a top priority.

"This isn't supposed to be a manifesto," Mr Reed says. 

"I think when we're nearer the election we will publish the full manifesto that will cover all of those other areas."

But was the MP disappointed that his own brief - the environment - was not mentioned either?

"This isn't supposed to cover everything," he says. "And those pledges, those commitments remain."

'Every commitment is deliverable'

He adds: "In British politics right now, there are two things that are missing: money and trust. 

"Every one of these commitments is fully funded so we can say how we're going to pay for it. But every one of them is deliverable as well."

The first steps will help towards a "much bigger dynamic of change", the shadow minister says, but first a Labour government would have to "restore trust".

"That means levelling with the British public," he says.