Email to The Today Program

28 October 2021

I enjoy listening to your programme each morning and in particular the interviews after Thought for the Day. Today Mr Sunak was discussing his Budget, and the presenter correctly strongly rebutted Mr Sunak’s claim that a change in benefit was a tax reduction. However, he was allowed to use the BBC as a platform for spreading “mis-information” relating to the UK’s carbon reduction achievements to date. He is not alone on incorrectly quoting the facts, and this level of deception should not go unchallenged. Below I use Government figures that show the true situation.