Prosperity or austerity? - 8 in the morning, April 8th

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* A Cameron adviser who identified £12bn of spending savings in a potential Tory government chairs a private healthcare firm that openly admits it will benefit from NHS spending cutbacks, reports the Guardian.

* The David Cameron question: Voters still doubt the Tory leader, says the Times.

* What has happened to the Tory obsession with debt?

* The Tories can’t muzzle election talk about Europe, writes Timothy Garton-Ash in the Guardian.

* The first new poll of the campaign shows Labour up and the Tories down…

Alex Smith

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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