"The CEBR says that if the Conservative party wins the next general election then the deficit will be plugged with £20bn in tax rises and £80bn in spending cuts.No denying comment from Gordon Brown? No acceptance or denial comment from Alistair Darling? No comment at all from anyone? No article by Nick Robinson or Robert Peston on the myth of Tory Cuts v Labour Investment?
And it says if Labour holds on to power then it predicts £40bn in tax rises and £60bn in spending cuts.
"It is likely that any government - particularly a new one - will be forced by political necessity to announce its fiscal consolidation programme early while it is still possible to blame the need for it on the previous government," said CEBR chief executive Douglas McWilliams. "
Anyone would think that the BBC were trying to bury this story... I wonder how soon they will dare to drop it off the "More Business Stories" list?
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