The Tories won the election by lying, says Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper has said that David Cameron won the election by lying, as she has pinpointed nine broken promises.

The leadership candidate has attacked Cameron for changing his stance on a number of issues post-election. They include cuts to child tax credits, prior to the election Cameron said he wouldn’t make any cuts in this area. Cooper has pointed out that Osborne’s budget included £4.5bn in cuts to child tax credits.

The leadership contender said that it’s only three months since the election and David Cameron has already broken major promises. “It’s clear he never expected to deliver these plans in the first place” she says.

Cooper has also noted that Cameron has failed to deliver on rail electrification plans and that he’s delayed the introduction of tax free childcare from from 2015 to 2017. You can see the nine areas she’s outlined below.

Cooper has said that although there’s a leadership contest underway “Labour can’t allow David Cameron to get away with this and carry on like nothing has happened – he is taking the British public for fools. We have to confront him directly on every lie and broken promise – that’s exactly what I plan to do in parliament and across the country.

“It’s time the prime minister and George Osborne were held to account for deceiving people and letting them down… the Tories have lied to the electorate.” she says.

The nine broken promises Cooper has pinpointed are:

• Cuts in child tax credits – Cameron said he wouldn’t do this but now there are £4.5bn of cuts to child tax credits planned
• Cuts to child benefit – Cameron said there would be no cuts apart from a two-year freeze, it will not be a four-year freeze.
• He has cancelled rail electrification plans.
• He’s cut back on the number of affordable homes that will be built – it’s estimated 14,000 fewer a year.
• He’s delayed deciding on a new airport runway in the south-east.
• He’s also put back the date which tax-free childcare will be introduced, from 2015 to 2017.
• He won’t give public official three days off work a year for volunteering – a pledge he made at the election.
• The social care cap won’t be introduced until 2020.
• Reversed pledge for government transparency.