article_snippet.sent: Voters are still 'in the dark' about the scale and depth of spending cuts being planned by all the main parties with just two weeks until polling day, economic experts warned today.
article_snippet.sent: Analysts from the Institute for Fiscal Studies said none of all the main parties had given 'anything like full details' on how none of the major parties will tackle the nations' debts after the election.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories were accused of giving 'no detail' about The Tories deficit reduction plan, which relies on £30billion of cuts, while Labour has left the door open to borrowing an extra £26billion-a-year.
article_snippet.sent: the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the promise of tackling the deficit in the next Parliament is based on 'almost entirely unspecified spending cuts and tax increases'.
article_snippet.sent: But Conservative plans are predicated on substantial and almost entirely unspecified spending cuts and tax increases. '
article_snippet.sent: While Labour has been considerably less clear about Labour overall fiscal ambition, Labour stated position appears to be consistent with little in the way of further spending cuts after this year.'
article_snippet.sent: The IFS analysis said the Tories would require large spending cuts or tax increases to achieve this.
article_snippet.sent: Research economist Soumaya Keynes said: 'The Conservatives have said The Conservatives want to eliminate the deficit but provided next to no detail on how The Conservatives would do the deficit. '
article_snippet.sent: The Conservatives should be forthcoming on the £5 billion of largely unspecified clampdown on tax avoidance, the £10 billion of unspecified cuts to social security spending and, according to our calculations, further real cuts to unprotected departments of around £30 billion.'
article_snippet.sent: Turning to Labour, the IFS said the Opposition had been 'considerably more vague' about how much the Opposition wants to borrow.
article_snippet.sent: the IFS said the Liberal Democrats had been more transparent about overall fiscal plans to 2017-18, revealing that the Liberal Democrats are aiming for a tightening more than Labour but less than the Conservatives.
article_snippet.sent: The independent analysis came as the main parties clashed over the economy, with Labour accusing the Tories of planning the biggest spending cuts in any of the world's advanced economies and the Conservatives renewing warnings that Britain's economy would suffer from an 'SNP/Miliband nightmare'.
article_snippet.sent: Labour's Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls said: 'the IFS has confirmed that the Tories are committed to the most extreme spending plans of any political party, with bigger cuts than any other advanced economy in the next three years. '
article_snippet.sent: the Tories might be able to make bigger cuts than any other advanced economy but the last five years show the Tories will fail to cut the deficit as the Tories claim.
highlights_snippet.sent: Institute for Fiscal Studies says no party has given 'anything like full detail'
  Labour has left the door open to borrowing an extra £26billion-a-year .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The Tories were accused of giving 'no detail' about £30billion of spending cuts .
  