Cameron's Families Manifesto is More Telling for What It Doesn't Say
Issue- The Conservatives launched their draft manifesto on families today.
Key points
- Ed Balls MP, Labour's Families Secretary responding to the Conservatives' draft families manifesto today said:
"David Cameron's families manifesto is more telling for what it doesn't say.
"It confirms that under the Tories Sure Start would be cut back from being a universal service for all families, simply to one for the poorest. But there is nothing in the Tory manifesto about their plans to take away child tax credits and child trust funds for families on modest and middle incomes. Nor is there anything about supporting fathers or boosting the rights of grandparents, which our Green Paper sets out clearly today.
"And as we heard from David Willetts this morning, the Tories still cannot say what they would do on marriage tax breaks or working tax credits for couples and they still cannot say how they'd pay for it. This flies in the face of George Osborne's pledge that the Conservatives would not make any promises of unfunded tax cuts.
"Once again David Cameron has airbrushed out all the details he doesn't want people to see."
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The Tories' slick PR conceals the threat they pose to families on middle and modest incomes.
- They would remove access to SureStart for families on modest incomes.
- They would cut child tax credits from families on £31,000 a year.
- They would cut child trust funds from families on just over £16,000 a year.
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