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12 December 2014

Referring to 1930s public spending won’t help Miliband: here are three charts that will

5 per cent doesn't sound a lot.

By Steven Toft

(Photo By Ed Miliband should focus on public service spending. Photo: Getty)

I don’t know who is advising Ed Miliband but “public spending back to 1930s levels” wasn’t a good line.

It’s true that the Conservatives’ proposed cuts take public spending to its lowest percentage of GDP since the ONS records began but it has been at similar levels in the recent past, notably under Tony Blair in 2000.

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