article_snippet.sent: Labour has previously confidently predicted that the Coalition's austerity programme would see unemployment and crime soar, and the number of poor students going to university fall.
article_snippet.sent: Evan Davis brought up the subject of Mr Balls' comment four years ago that it was 'fantasy' to think Britain would get job growth with all the cuts being made in the public sector.
article_snippet.sent: Evan Davis asked the party's leader: 'What's happened to jobs over the last five years?'
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband replied: 'What Ed Balls was doing was quoting what the Office of Budget Responsibility were saying, which is there'd be a very, very big impact on public sector jobs, and there were deep questions about whether the private sector jobs could make up the shortfall.'
article_snippet.sent: When Evan Davis said Evan Davis wanted to 'focus on the number of jobs', Ed Miliband had to admit: 'the number of jobs has gone up, but you know, I'm going to let people in this election make the judgment about whether that means the economy's fixed or not.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Evan Davis told Labour leader situation had improved in jobs, crime and fees .
  