i'm going to turn elliot keck, head of turn now to elliot keck, head of campaigns at the taxpayers alliancealliance. how do you think this inquiry going? i it's inquiry is going? i mean, it's going cost a quarter going to cost nearer a quarter of a billion than 100 million. it's to take many, many it's going to take many, many years. is this a good use of our time and resources and effort? yeah. >> so just touching that >> so just touching on that cost, taxpayers cost, we, the taxpayers alliance, people alliance, like many people actually days , have actually over recent days, have been some calculations been doing some calculations as to this could cost. to how much this could cost. we've come up with a we've actually come up with a relatively conservative estimate of but even that of £156 million. but even that would the second most would be the second most expensive covid public inquiry even expensive covid public inquiry ever. it would most ever. it would be the most expensive per day at about £109,000 per day. and what are we for that money? well, we getting for that money? well, at mo

i'm going to turn elliot keck, head of turn now to elliot keck, head of campaigns at the taxpayers alliancealliance. how do you think this inquiry going? i it's inquiry is going? i mean, it's going cost a quarter going to cost nearer a quarter of a billion than 100 million. it's to take many, many it's going to take many, many years. is this a good use of our time and resources and effort? yeah. >> so just touching that >> so just touching on that cost, taxpayers cost, we, the taxpayers alliance, people alliance, like many people actually days , have actually over recent days, have been some calculations been doing some calculations as to this could cost. to how much this could cost. we've come up with a we've actually come up with a relatively conservative estimate of but even that of £156 million. but even that would the second most would be the second most expensive covid public inquiry even expensive covid public inquiry ever. it would most ever. it would be the most expensive per day at about £109,000 per day. and what are we for that money? well, we getting for that money? well, at mo

let's dig into the detail now with the head of campaigns at the taxpayers alliance, elliot keck and elliotankrupt, , does this mean that where councils go bankrupt , those who councils go bankrupt, those who live within the jurisdiction of those councils will see their tax go up ? tax go up? >> well , good afternoon, tom and >> well, good afternoon, tom and emily. it almost certainly will. the, uh , examples of bankrupt the, uh, examples of bankrupt councils from the previous financial year. croydon slough and thurrock all saw their council tax rise not just by the 5% that most places saw, that 5% being the referendum cap above which you'd have to hold a local vote. they saw their council tax go vote. they saw their council tax 9° up vote. they saw their council tax 90 ”p by vote. they saw their council tax go up by ten or even 15. so if you look at the examples of birmingham , nottingham, woking birmingham, nottingham, woking and possibly cheshire east, i think that's certainly on the cards. and i think that's certainly going to be something that's going to be threatening household bills

and join me now to discuss this is elliot keck, head of campaigns at the taxpayers alliance. s and billions and billions of pounds committed over the years . nobody was ever over the years. nobody was ever consulted and presumably only the vast amount of taxpayers would rather this money was spent domestically . spent domestically. >> yeah, and i think in particular, taxpayers would like to be consulted as you said. >> i think when we look at our major our conferences and summits like cop, part of a much, much broader programme, i think the prime minister, the king, anybody that's representing the united kingdom at this summit needs to remember that there there to represent british and ultimately british taxpayers and ultimately that's who they're there to represent . and so when start represent. and so when we start talking these absolutely talking about these absolutely massive pledges, these these absolutely massive decisions, rishi sunak and his ministers and his diplomats need to ensure that the british and his diplomats need to ensure that first. the british people first