Liam Byrne has today written an article for The Daily Telegraph calling for more spending on benefits for people who are over fifty, including ‘higher rates of JSA’. Mr Byrne’s call follows the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls’ intervention yesterday when he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour, if they win the next election, they would "of course" borrow more for capital spending projects in 2015/16. Labour say they wont borrow more that the Coalition are for day-to-day government spending
Conservative Party Chairman, Grant Shapps, said: “On Saturday Ed Miliband called for spending ‘discipline’ and promised not to borrow more. The next day Ed Balls then said Labour would actually borrow more. And now they're calling for more spending and borrowing on benefits – while cutting pensions. It’s clear that Ed Miliband is too weak to stick to his promises – he's opposed £83 billion of welfare savings and he's buckling under pressure. It's the same old Labour approach of more spending, more borrowing and more debt. And hardworking people would pay the price with higher interest rates and higher bills.”
Conservative Party Chairman, Grant Shapps, said: “On Saturday Ed Miliband called for spending ‘discipline’ and promised not to borrow more. The next day Ed Balls then said Labour would actually borrow more. And now they're calling for more spending and borrowing on benefits – while cutting pensions. It’s clear that Ed Miliband is too weak to stick to his promises – he's opposed £83 billion of welfare savings and he's buckling under pressure. It's the same old Labour approach of more spending, more borrowing and more debt. And hardworking people would pay the price with higher interest rates and higher bills.”
A senior Green party source told me that Labour's policy is "astonishing intellectual incoherence"
