Prime Minister Boris Johnson, facing a Dec. 12 election, promised 23.5 billion p...
TELFORD, England - Prime Minister Boris Johnson, facing a Dec. 12 election, promised 23.5 billion pounds of “sensible” tax cuts and extra day-to-day spending which he sought to contrast with the opposition Labour Party’s much more radical plans.
“We won’t gamble with taxpayers’ money or this country’s economic future. That is why we have set out clear rules that will keep borrowing and debt under control,” finance minister Sajid Javid said in a document accompanying the launch. Under the Conservatives’ plans, day-to-day spending would rise by 2.9 billion pounds a year by the 2023/24 financial year, dwarfed by Labour’s 83 billion-pound planned rise as it promises to reverse a decade of tight spending controls on many services.
“Outside of schools and hospitals, there is not going to be much to go around,” he told BBC television. “A lot of the austerity...that we have seen over the last decade in things like justice, in things like local government, are pretty much baked in, if you take this manifesto at face value.”
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