The Tories’ front of house team turned up today to try and stoke up a row about Labour’s spending plans. The Tory aim was twofold. First, to try and cement in voters’ minds the idea that Labour would spend too much, pushing up taxes and second to claim that Labour is in chaos when it tries to distance itself from previous spending commitments. The latter is why the Tories are so relaxed about people pointing out that various commitments in their own dossier do not appear in Labour’s official policy prospectus, the one issued after the party’s National Policy Forum.
Osborne, Hague, May, Morgan and Javid all came carrying the same message: that Labour hasn’t changed and would do it all over again when it came to spending too much money, pushing up taxes and sending the economy into chaos.
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