Forget Labour’s ‘tax bombshell’. It’s Tory policy that needs a watchful eye | Richard Partington

Conservative economic promises such as tax cuts fail to match fiscal reality - the key to progress is investment, not austerity

• Sunak says he wants to reduce workers' taxes and may cut benefits

The contours of the election campaign are becoming clear. Do the Conservatives deserve five more years of trying to improve Britain's lot, despite the abject failure of the past 14? Can Labour under Keir Starmer be trusted to do better?

At the start of yet another crunch year in British politics, Rishi Sunak will be hoping the latter question resonates with voters, as the Tory election machine revs up to cast Slippery Starmer" as an untrustworthy, high tax-and-spend Labour leader who would bankrupt Britain.