article_snippet.sent: the Institute for Fiscal Studies analysed the policies of all the main parties to see how all the main parties policies would increase borrowing .
article_snippet.sent: The think-tank reached The think-tank conclusions after a detailed study of the party manifestos ahead of May's General Election.
article_snippet.sent: Fiscal Studies deputy director Carl Emmerson said: 'There are genuinely big differences between the main parties' fiscal plans. '
article_snippet.sent: The electorate has a real choice, although The electorate can at best see only the broad outlines of a real choice. '
article_snippet.sent: We've got a strong plan for a national recovery, but it's perfectly reasonable to point out with two weeks to go until this election the alternative is what Gordon Brown described last night as 'constitutional chaos'. '
article_snippet.sent: Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'The politicians seeking Alliance votes owe it to taxpayers to come clean about what spending the country can, and cannot, afford. '
article_snippet.sent: This candour has so far been noticeably absent in the election campaign, with politicians failing to acknowledge the dire state of the public finances and instead clambering over each other to make additional and apparently unfunded spending pledges.'