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Writing in his Daily Record column, Stephen Flynn says the public should be worried about austerity under Labour. The Labour Party is so terrified of scaring off Tory voters in England that they are adopting the same approach to public policy and spending as the Conservatives.
Don’t just take my word for it. One of the most significant interventions in this election has come from the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson - as independent a figure as independent figures come. He said last week that “neither party - the Labour and Conservative Party - is really addressing the big problems that they'll face if they win the election. The numbers that we've got from the Chancellor, which the Labour Party have not demurred from at all, imply big spending cuts over the next five years”.
The IFS reckon that these Tory and Labour Party plans would mean a massive £18 billion of cuts. Another think tank puts that figure at closer to £33 billion.
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