This is not true. It may not be in the manifesto.
The promise, such as it is, is to raise the NI threshold from next April so that it eventually reaches £12,500 to match the income tax threshold - which will probably be higher than that by the time NI reaches that level.
For now, the best voters can hope for is enough to buy an extra cup of coffee a week.
And it's not "for all" as the Express says. He's not giving EVERYONE £460 a year, as the Mail says. It's not for the homeless. It's not for the unemployed. It's not for stay-at-home parents or part-time workers who earn less than about £160 per week.
If this were a genuine tax promise, it would be a huge story. But it isn't. It's something that fell out of Boris Johnson's mouth while at a motor industry factory. On the day that the Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto, it was the top political story on the BBC's Ten o'clock News and the main election story in most papers.
That's their choice. News judgments are subjective. But can't the Mail, Express and Sun - from which the cuttings above are taken - at least put the words in Johnson's mouth and present them as a hope or even a promise rather than the gospel truth. Which it is not.
Are we being served?
The promise, such as it is, is to raise the NI threshold from next April so that it eventually reaches £12,500 to match the income tax threshold - which will probably be higher than that by the time NI reaches that level.
For now, the best voters can hope for is enough to buy an extra cup of coffee a week.
And it's not "for all" as the Express says. He's not giving EVERYONE £460 a year, as the Mail says. It's not for the homeless. It's not for the unemployed. It's not for stay-at-home parents or part-time workers who earn less than about £160 per week.
If this were a genuine tax promise, it would be a huge story. But it isn't. It's something that fell out of Boris Johnson's mouth while at a motor industry factory. On the day that the Liberal Democrats launched their manifesto, it was the top political story on the BBC's Ten o'clock News and the main election story in most papers.
That's their choice. News judgments are subjective. But can't the Mail, Express and Sun - from which the cuttings above are taken - at least put the words in Johnson's mouth and present them as a hope or even a promise rather than the gospel truth. Which it is not.
Are we being served?