Labour launches scary NHS attack poster

The post-Budget attack lines for Labour were clear in Ed Miliband’s speech on Wednesday: his party will allege that the Tories have a ‘secret plan that dare not speak its name’ to cut the NHS in the next Parliament. To underline that claim, Labour has this morning published its first election poster, threatening that the Conservatives would ‘cut to the bone’.

Ed Balls, who is understood to have major input into this poster, said this morning:

‘After five years of David Cameron, our health service is going backwards. Our NHS just can’t afford these extreme and risky Tory cuts. And after their broken promises on the NHS in this Parliament nobody will trust what the Tories say about the NHS.’

The Shadow Chancellor said that ‘the cuts to public services like police, defence and social care under these plans would be so deep they’d be almost impossible to achieve. People will conclude that to make their sums add up the Tories will end up cutting our NHS.