At the last General Election, the IFS calculated that the difference in public spending implied by Labour and Conservative economic plans was £40 billion. That’s about the size of the entire economy of Croatia.
Despite this it’s not unusual to hear the view expressed that there just aren’t that many differences between Labour and the Tories anymore. In an interesting article by Adam Ludlow, a pollster for ComRes, a Corbyn supporter is quoted saying:
“When I go out canvassing, people don’t say “you’re too left wing in the Labour Party”, they say “you’re all the same as each other!”’
The problem as Ludlow details is that more systematic evidence just doesn’t bear out such anecdotes:
…when it comes to the last election, the public was well-aware of the differences on offer – and chose to reject Labour.
The chart below shows that prior to the election, the vast…
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