Institute for Fiscal studies are briefing on party manifestos

Here is a live stream, if that’s your kind of thing.

And here is a the PDF in full, for your perusal.

The IFS has issued its funding after studying the manifestos of the four parties.

The think-tank says that voters are largely in the dark about the cuts that they would be facing under whatever Government is formed after May 7 because the parties refuse to give “anything like full details” about the specific ways they will reduce the deficit.