内容摘要：However, Green Party cabinet member for environment, culture and wellbeing, Tim Weller, said every village in his parish was being affected by energy projects.

However, Green Party cabinet member for environment, culture and wellbeing, Tim Weller, said every village in his parish was being affected by energy projects.

as his "long-term ambition" but acknowledged that it would not happen in the next Parliament - in other words, not before 2030.he is only talking about NI for workers. NI is also charged to employers.

The £46bn is a fair estimate of what it would cost to abolish NI for workers today:: "We're saying as soon as we're able to afford to do this because the economy has grown and because public finances are in a position to be able to do it, this is something we want to do."That would mean that the cut would be funded, although we do not know exactly how.

"I take Mr Hunt as setting out an aspiration, rather than a firm commitment," said Helen Miller from independent think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)."Of course, there are always lots of things a government would like to do when finances are brighter, so the real question is whether Mr Hunt would prioritise cutting NICs [National Insurance Contributions] over everything else, whenever 'conditions allowed'."

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

in which he described inheritance tax as “profoundly anti-Conservative”, but did not say whether abolishing it would be in the manifesto.But BBC Verify has carried out extensive searches of Home Office circulars issued across that period and found no evidence that any document containing this advice exists.

Brown - who was prime minister in 2008 - has called the allegations "a complete fabrication" and the Home Office says there "has never been any truth" to them.Social media posts referencing a memo and using either the phrase "informed choice" or a variation like "lifestyle choice" have circulated for several years with some gaining traction.

But that intensified dramatically since the start of the year, with posts repeating the claim generating tens of millions of views in the past week after Mr Musk amplified several of them on his social media platform, X.In one post, which has received over 25 million views, Mr Musk alleged that "Gordon Brown sold those little girls for votes" while reposting another user, June Slater, using words that were apparently a variation of the memo claim.