Sunday shows round-up: Sajid Javid – Labour’s spending plans ‘absolutely reckless’

Andrew Marr was joined this morning by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Conservatives have published a document which they claim represents the ‘eyewatering’ cost of Labour’s policies should the party win the general election, with the overall figure estimated at £1.2 trillion. Marr challenged the figures, claiming that Conservatives were relying on ‘bogus accounting’. Javid defended the costings, which include the introduction of a four day working week and trialling a guaranteed basic income for all:

General election 2019: Chancellor Sajid Javid tells #Marr Labour’s economic spending is “absolutely reckless”https://t.co/kiAcRqKV58 pic.twitter.com/Sz0acK4Xtq

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SJ: Every single costing in this dossier that we’ve published today has either come from Labour’s own figures… [or] independent external sources. In some cases we have had to work them out ourselves [and] we’ve set out how exactly in the document… It will be absolutely reckless and will leave this country with an economic crisis within months.