The Big Lie - Tory cuts versus Labour investment - is now taken for granted. So it wasn’t newsworthy when Gordon Brown repeated it during an address to a bunch of Labour youngsters in Victoria this afternoon.
I did like this new one though: “They (Tories) would take away all the measures that would help the unemployed.”
So, David Cameron would scrap all JobCentres and unemployment benefits? Really?
Jim Pickard and Alex Barker, FT Westminster correspondents, share the latest news and gossip from the UK's political scene.
Alex Barker has been an FT political correspondent since July 2007. He joined the paper in 2005, after working in current affairs television.
Jim Pickard joined the FT's lobby team in January 2008, having been a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.
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