Both parties have pledged not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT over recent days, should either of them win after polling day on July 4.
A General Election row has broken out over near-identical Conservative and Labour commitments not to raise VAT.
The row began overnight as The Telegraph published an article by Mr Hunt which read: “A VAT increase will hammer families’ finances and push inflation back up, just when we have got it down to normal.” Her party held a press conference in London on Wednesday, where Labour campaigners claimed the Conservatives have a financial black hole in their plans of £71 billion, made up of allegedly unfunded pledges.
The Chancellor added: “I set out in the Budget very clear plans to improve the efficiency of public services, and I took a very difficult decision – I put £3.4 billion into improving the IT systems in the NHS.”
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