Labour have criticised the Conservatives for failing to improve living standards during their time in office, highlighting 25 tax rises since the last election. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 If you look at the situation on tax since the last general election, we've seen 25 tax rises
00:07 since that last general election under the Conservatives. And with the national insurance
00:12 reduction, what the Conservatives are doing is just putting back £2 out of every £10 of extra
00:20 tax that they're levying on people. So this is a case, I'm afraid, of smoke and mirrors. And
00:24 the majority of people actually watching this will know from their experience of what's in
00:29 their pocket and in their bank balance that they're worse off under the Conservatives,
00:34 and I'm afraid that's not changing despite today's news. It looks like this Parliament
00:40 will be the first Parliament in living memory where people's living standards will actually
00:45 be lower at the end of the Parliament than they were at the beginning of it. We really need to see
00:52 a government that's focused on increasing people's living standards, on securing growth for our
00:58 country. Labour's got a plan to deliver that growth, to deliver those higher living standards,
01:03 and people need the chance for that change. Unfortunately, the Conservatives right now
01:07 are blocking the general election that would give a chance for that change.