SNP would spend less than Labour, IFS say
Earlier I said that the IFS said voters had to decide between the “rhetoric” of the parties – both SNP’s own claim about the planned end to austerity and the scaremongering from their opponents – and the numbers the IFS have crunched from their manifestos.
This “number crunched” table from the full IFS report is interesting, it shows the IFS think that by 2019-20 Labour will be spending 38.3 per cent of the national income. The SNP will be spending 37.7 – less than the Liberal Democrat prediction.
