More fantastic clarity over Labour’s £28 billion spending pledge this morning as Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq argues with Nick Ferrari about whether the pledge is a commitment or an ambition. Ferrari likened the fiasco to “saying to your partner: I’ll marry you if you win the lottery. Life doesn’t work like that“. Guido’s not sure what the analogy Tulip was reaching for here means:

“It is a commitment depending on the fact it abides by our fiscal rules… everything has to depend on external circumstances… it’s like saying to your partner ‘I will marry you’ but if I suddenly find out you murdered a two year old last year, you might not want to… I think that’s what we are saying. If there’s a global financial crisis we need to review our commitments that that time“.

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