£1,200,000,000,000 ‘BANKRUPT BRITAIN’
better upstream river management and flood defences in towns were needed and called for more funding for emergency services.
The Conservatives say the Environment Agency has exceeded its target to have 6,500 people trained and ready to respond to incidents. £201billion for capital spending over the course of a Parliament.
This includes £30billion over five years to install energy saving measures “in almost all of the UK’S 27 million homes”.
Peter Dowd, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, recently admitted that the “British people will pay” for Labour’s plans.
‘The British people will pay for this’
He said: “Well, the British people will pay for this as part of our investment package.
“It be will be money that we borrow and we will seek to invest that amount of money, and the return as a result of a growing economy, more sustainable economy, will ultimately pay for that.” The analysis of
Labour’s spending plans had been blocked from being published by the head of the civil service, Sir Mark Sedwill.
The decision by Sir Mark to ban publication of the routine Treasury analysis was criticised as political interference.
Mr Mcdonnell attacked the Treasury research as “an abuse of power”.
He had dismissed the costings as “pure speculation”.
He added: “I said, first of all, you do not know what is in the manifesto so that is pure speculation.
“Secondly, this being done within hours of the formal campaign being undertaken. Thirdly, I think it’s an abuse of power.”
The stunning revelations come as Labour has continued to be rocked by allegations of anti-semitism.
Last night, the party denied claims that shadow frontbencher Dan Carden had turned the Beatles hit Hey Jude into an anti
Semitic song on a bus trip back from Cheltenham last year.
Meanwhile, former Labour MPS Ian Austin and John Woodcock have urged voters to back the Tories because Mr Corbyn is “unfit to be prime minister”.
Writing in the Sunday Express today, Stephen Pollard, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, explained why his newspaper had asked voters to back Boris Johnson ahead of Mr Corbyn.
He said: “Mr Corbyn is the pied piper of Jew haters – they are attracted to the Labour Party because of his presence.
“But, unlike the pied piper, he does nothing about them.”
The “Remain Alliance” was said to be splintering last night.
The Lib Dems’ Unite to Remain pact with the Greens and Plaid Cymru was denounced as an “anti-labour alliance”, as party members reportedly turned on each other.