article_snippet.sent: Chancellor appeared to leave the door open when asked if Chancellor would be ‘depriving more families’ of the payments which are worth more than £1,000 per year.
article_snippet.sent: the Conservatives say the Conservatives would cut £30billion of spending if the Conservatives win a second term.
article_snippet.sent: Of this £12billion would be slashed from the welfare bill, with the rest from government departments and further cracking down on tax avoidance.
article_snippet.sent: While the Prime Minister has given a commitment to protect the state pension, few other savings have been set out apart from reducing the cap on a family’s annual benefits from £26,000 to £23,000.
article_snippet.sent: The Chancellor said the Coalition had saved £21billion in this Parliament, and the ‘same principles’ would apply if The Chancellor party win a second term – with further reforms to welfare .
article_snippet.sent: The Chancellor said the Coalition had saved £21billion in this Parliament, and the ‘same principles’ would apply if his party win a second term – with further reforms to welfarehis party .
article_snippet.sent: Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is sympathetic to the idea.
article_snippet.sent: The event attended by Mr Osborne, and Treasury minister David Gauke and Priti Patel was an analysis of the Labour’s party fiscal plans, if Ed Miliband gets into Downing Street.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband claimed The Labour Party would ‘never’ eliminate the budget deficit – unlike Tory plans to run a surplus by 2020 – because The Labour Party would borrow billions of pounds every year and not cut spending.
article_snippet.sent: When the economy's growing, and we're not in recession, we should be raising more than we spend’, Ed Miliband said.
article_snippet.sent: The Labour Party don't want to do that, The Labour Party only talked about balancing the current, day to day, spending while continuing to borrow to pay for capital spending.
article_snippet.sent: What The Labour Party don't tell you is that means a permanent, never-ending budget deficit.
article_snippet.sent: Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie said:
article_snippet.sent: ‘The Tories won't admit where The Tories £12 billion of welfare cuts will come from, but after this press conference this press conference's now clear middle income families are in the firing line.
highlights_snippet.sent: Chancellor paves the way for further cuts to payments with £1,000-a-year .
  