IFS to voters: you have a choice between the 'undeliverable' or 'unworkable'

Respected thinktank says neither Conservatives nor Labour are being entirely honest about how they will fund and deliver their different visions for the UK

A plague on both your houses. That, put simply, is the considered view of the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the tax and spending pledges made by the Conservative and Labour parties in their election manifestos.

There was, the IFS noted, a real choice for voters on 8 June, marking quite a change from recent elections. But it was a choice between the undeliverable on the part of the Tories and the unworkable from Labour. Even by the IFS's exacting standards, it was a withering assessment.

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