The Conservatives have regularly said that the 2008 financial crash was caused by Labour’s spending – ignoring the facts which say that it was down to lack of regulation of the banks. That’s something Osborne’s own Permanent Secretary now acknowledges.
Yet a fact Labour have pointed out time and again – and the Tories have conveniently ignored – is that the Conservatives backed Labour’s spending plans.
Here’s proof of George Osborne, then Shadow Chancellor, saying exactly this in 2007:
Here’s that crucial line:
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