General Election 2019: Tory £1.2 trillion Labour spending claim fact-checked

General Election 2019: Tory £1.2 trillion Labour spending claim fact-checked

The claim: The Conservatives claim Labour would spend an additional £1.2tn over the next five years.

Reality Check verdict: Without having seen the Labour Party manifesto, it is impossible to reach an accurate tally.

The Conservative Party released a dossier , which claimed that a Labour government would mean extra spending of £1.2tn. The Conservatives arrived at this figure by adding up spending pledges from Labour’s manifesto in 2017, commitments made by the shadow cabinet since then and policies passed by the Labour Party conference.But the Labour Party has not yet published its manifesto, so the Conservative Party does not […]

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