The Institute for Fiscal Studies says four of the major parties have not provided "anything like full details" on plans to cut the deficit
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A quick recap of the Institute for Fiscal Studies' assessment of plans to reduce the deficit by the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and SNP.
The Conservatives would cut the deficit each year until it reaches a surplus in 2018-19.
Labour would cut the deficit more slowly until 2018-19 when government borrowing would be 1.4% of GDP.
The IFS said spending would be higher under Labour than the SNP at the end of the Parliament.
The Lib Dems say they would be "somewhere between" the Conservatives and Labour, the IFS adds.
The IFS said "broad outlines" of the choice on offer were on show but the electorate had been left "somewhere in the dark" over cuts planned by the parties. It said "all four parties' plans imply further austerity" over the next five years.
The IFS did not examine the UKIP or Green manifestos as there was not time between the publication of the plans and the publication of its analysis.
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Karen Whitehouse:
Reference the interview with Chris Leslie, he hasn't got a clue where the money is coming from.
What happens if there is a down turn in the housing market and the value of the houses go down? No mansion tax! When can we see equal coverage for the Conservatives? As far as the BBC coverage is concerned, it would seem the party is not a main contender. Regardless of political preferences we all have to pay the BBC television licence.
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Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie says there is a big philosophical difference between Labour and the Conservatives. He tells the Daily Politics achieving a Budget surplus is contingent on what happens in the economy.
Mr Leslie says the Conservatives look at public finances “as if they are somehow separate from the economy and it doesn’t matter what goes on with growth or wages”.
He says: “We take a different view active government can have an effect on the economy and can in turn have an effect on the public finances.”
Jim Pickard, Financial Times
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Brian Shepherd:
When will politicians be honest about the NHS and say we cannot afford it as it is.It is time for a grown up debate about private medical insurance.
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Steve Clarke:
This really is getting ridiculous. When the last Labour prime minister agrees with the current Conservative prime minister about the SNP walking all over Labour and Ed Miliband then you have a REAL problem!
@AxholmeMiller
Quote MessageAmazed Nick Clegg declined to attend an all party forum held by local radio in his constituency, Sheffield Hallam last night! #LibDem
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As a disabled person, I feel neither of the two main parties are interested in my vote. They are only interested in hardworking families. Many disabled people feel excluded from society, we are the first portion of society to suffer cuts.
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Gemma Tetlow of the IFS tells the Daily Politics there are “different omissions from each of the different political parties".
She says: "The Tories have been very clear about what borrowing reductions they want to achieve but they have been very unclear about how they achieve that".
They [the Tories] have £5bn of unspecified tax avoidance measures, she says, £10bn from unspecified social security cuts and £30bn of cuts required to unprotected departmental spending that aren’t mentioned anywhere in their manifesto.
“Labour on the other hand have given much less detail about really what they want the level of borrowing to be and how quickly they want to get that down in the next parliament,” she says. Taking the loosest interpretation of what they have said, their sums do just about add up, she adds.
@IanDunt
Quote MessageLabour and Tory efforts to shut out voters are ultimately self-defeating http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/04/23/insulting-voters-can-only-lead-to-defeat-for-both-the-tories …
@JoeWatts_
Quote MessageVoters who say "they're all the same" should look at the big differences in parties’ plans as highlighted by the IFS http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/7726 …
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John England:
Have Cameron and Osborne visited a food bank yet during the campaign? Now a hard hat would be really useful for them there...
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Adam Eveleigh:
Possible Lab-SNP vote-by-vote agreement isn't scary. Labour introduced nuclear deterrent under Attlee, Labour committed to cutting the deficit (with Sturgeon also recognising it needs to be cut). Labour doesn't have to concede anything to the SNP outside of coalition. If they want to vote for Labour bills then they can, it's totally up to them.
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Kathryn Luck:
Please could someone ask Miliband and Clegg why they were prepared to play party politics with democracy when they voted against the proposed boundary changes in the last parliament.
If we can't trust them to treat us fairly on an issue as fundamental as making sure that all our votes are as equal in value as possible, how can we trust them on anything else?