Quote Sal Paradise="Sal Paradise"What was the Tories plan - reduce the deficit - has that happened? Even you have to admit it has fallen significantly since 2009 when under Labour it was £90bn - about £110bn in today's money was in 2019 approx. £25bn. So they have done what they set out to do. Austerity was required because of the financial situation the Tories inherited i.e. a massive surplus of government spending over revenue generation.'"
The Tories plan was to eliminate the deficit and reduce the national debt, that hasn’t happened, despite moving the date it was due to happen several times.
Quote Sal Paradise="Sal Paradise"Labour was running a huge budget deficit - that had nothing to do with the banks and they had agreed that spending needed to be reduced and they would have done the same if they had stayed in power. Projections for 2010 were £190bn!!'"
1997 when labour came to power Debt was 43.2% of GDP.
In 2007 after 10 years of labour debt was 41.5% of GDP.
It is a myth labour were running huge budget deficits before the global financial crisis.
You have stated this before and been challenged on it before, you didn’t respond and then go on to repeat the same Tory lie.