In the Pre Budget Report Alistair Darling has set out his balanced package to protect the frontline services – schools, police and the NHS - to invest in growth and to halve the deficit fairly in 4 years

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Our plan is to protect frontline public services – making them smarter, more efficient and more responsive.

The Tories’ plans would do lasting damage to our public services and involve scrapping Labour’s patient guarantees, including to cancer patients. 

Our plan is to tax fairly – ensuring that those at the top make a fair contribution

The Tories plan to give unfunded and unfair tax cuts to the wealthiest – like their giveaway of £200,000 to each of the 3000 wealthiest estates.

Our plan is to invest in growth – because faster growth will cut unemployment and its cost. It is the best way to reduce the deficit. 

The Tories’ plans would deliver a decade of austerity and low growth – their plans involve cutting support to the economy right now, leading to higher unemployment and bigger welfare bills. They would give over £10 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest few.

Our plan means that we will fulfil our commitment to halve the deficit within 4 years.

We will secure growth – not pull the plug on economic recovery. When the recovery is secured we will halve the deficit in 4 years. We will tighten our belts, as families across the country are doing. 

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The plan outlined in today’s Pre Budget Report outlines how Labour will take the British economy out of the downturn fairly and sustainably - avoiding the dangerous, damaging and immedite cuts proposed by the Conservatives.