Election 2015: Voters 'left in the dark', says IFS

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Election 2015: Voters 'left in the dark', says IFS

 Four of the major parties have not provided "anything like full details" on plans to cut the deficit, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.

"Broad outlines" of the choice on offer were on show, it said, but voters were "somewhere in the dark" over cuts planned by the main UK parties and SNP.
The Conservatives would have to cut services and Labour borrow £26bn a year, the independent body suggested.
It said the difference between the two approaches was the biggest since 1992.
The two largest parties again attacked each other's economic plans.
The Conservatives said a Labour government backed by the SNP would be "deeply unstable", as Labour said the Tories planned "the biggest cuts in the developed world".


In other election news:

• The coalition received a pre-election boost with official figures showing it beat its target for reducing annual public sector borrowing for the latest financial year
• The Liberal Democrats pledged a £150m support package for carers
• SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said her party would prop up a minority Labour government even if the Conservatives had a 40-seat lead
• An east London election was declared void and will have to be re-run after the mayor was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices
• The head of the UK's returning officers' organisation said the number of uncontested seats at some local elections has reached "epidemic proportions"

The IFS report comes after it analysed each of the party manifestos.
The think tank's deputy director Carl Emmerson said: "There are genuinely big differences between the main parties' fiscal plans.
"The electorate has a real choice, although it can at best see only the broad outlines of that choice."

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