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Miliband dismisses Conservative spending claims

Ed Miliband has strongly denied Conservative claims that Labour has made £20.7 billion in "unfunded" spending commitments.

The Conservatives today published an 82-page document outlining what the party claims is a cost analysis of Labour's planned spending in the first year of office.

The parties have kicked into full election mode with Miliband launching a "street by street" election campaign, Nick Clegg distancing himself from the coalition and branding Tory deficit plans "a con" and David Cameron claiming his is the only party who can save the economy.

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Osborne and colleagues laugh at leadership hustings gag

George Osborne and his senior Cabinet colleagues laughed as they were asked if they could each say why they might make a good leader of the Conservative Party.

Osborne, William Hague, Theresa May, Nicky Morgan and Sajid Javid were addressing journalists on the cost of Labour's policies when it was suggested the event looked like a leadership hustings.

"We're not going to do that," the Chancellor said after the laughing subsided.

"This is a team united behind David Cameron, a strong Prime Minister who lead our country in the coming years."

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