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Around the Web: Labour’s manifesto

We have some video footage of Brown’s speech at Spectator Live, and you can read Pete’s analysis here.

Elsewhere on the Web:

Hopi Sen likes the promise on early diagnosis on Cancer care, and the fact that no incredible spending pledges have been included.

The Guardian’s Julian Glover attacks a ‘meaningless manifesto‘:

‘Ed Miliband, who we are told wrote Labour’s manifesto, is fond of saying that the Tories are on the wrong side of the battle of ideas. It’s a neat phrase, but an empty one unless you have ideas of your own. On the basis of today’s manifesto performance, Labour doesn’t.’

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argues that ‘Gordon Brown’s new-found aversion to spending commitments is as believable as the cartoon drunk vowing never to touch another drop of alcohol.

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