article_snippet.sent: Lib Dem leader promised to 'spread the burden' of deficit reduction, with cuts to welfare and Whitehall budgets along with tax rises aimed at the very wealthy.
article_snippet.sent: Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg today promised to 'spread the burden' of deficit reduction, with cuts to welfare and Whitehall budgets along with tax rises aimed at the very wealthy .
article_snippet.sent: At a press conference in central London, Nick Clegg said: 'We are going to spread the burden of finishing the job of fixing the economy fairly across society. '
article_snippet.sent: Among the Lib Dem deficit-reduction plans confirmed by the party's leader are: .
article_snippet.sent: What we're saying is we'll extend the same fair banded approach up the value chain.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg challenged the other parties to spell out in similar detail how the other parties would balance the nation's books .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg challenged the other parties to spell out in similar detail how the other parties would balance the nation's books.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg said the Lib Dems are the only party offering a 'balanced' programme to pay down the remaining deficit and deliver a £7.7 billion surplus, while still finding money to raise income tax thresholds to £11,000 and invest in the NHS.
article_snippet.sent: Setting out plans to eradicate the current structural deficit by 2017-18, Mr Clegg said Mr Clegg party was giving an 'unprecedented level of detail' about his party financial plans and challenged Labour and the Tories to do the same.
article_snippet.sent: Labour leader Ed Miliband leads a party that 'want you to think they can be trusted to balance the books without saying how they intend to do it', Labour leader Ed Miliband said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Lib Dem leader explains how Lib Dem leader party would eradicate deficit by 2017-18 .
  