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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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Jim Murphy: 'Mansion Tax' to fund extra 1,000 nurses in Scotland

The new leader of Scottish Labour, Jim Murphy. Credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Labour's newly elected leader in Scotland has said his party would use a 'mansion tax' to fund 1,000 extra nurses north of the border.

Jim Murphy admitted the move would mean taxing properties mainly in England to pay for improvements that would benefit Scotland.

He told the Press Association:

I think it is right and fair that we tax properties worth over £2m across the UK – a small number are in Scotland but the vast majority are in London and the south east.

It is then fair that you share that tax across the country, and it just so happens that Scotland would get an enormous boost from that. I think it’s popular in Scotland and I think it will also be popular in the vast areas all across the UK.

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