Ed Miliband: IFS confirmed Tories ‘extreme spending plans’
While David Cameron is campaigning in Cornwall and Nick Clegg is making his way across the stunning vistas Crickhowell, Powys Ed Miliband is in Nuneaton.
He is there to unveil four new posters promising 20,000 new nurses. 8,000 more GPs, GP appointments within 48 hours and cancer tests within a week. Sadly the sun is less shiny in Warwickshire this morning.
The Labour leader says that IFS briefing this morning has confirmed Conservatives are committed to “extreme spending plans”. PA report that Labour will clear the deficit as soon as possible but will not go further.
Mr Miliband, who has been vocal about his party;s commitment to reestablishing Mare Nostrum search and rescue in the Mediterranean says that the has shown the right judgement on international affairs over the last years. He is also likely to be referring to his party’s decision to vote against the Government on air strike in Syria in 2013, something he has referred to as an example of his prime ministerial abilities.