article_snippet.sent: It would mean raising spending on education every year from 2018 onwards and at all stages 'from cradle to college', which goes further than the Tories or Labour have promised.
article_snippet.sent: Nothing is more crucial to that than education.'
article_snippet.sent: The pledge would mean raising spending on education every year from 2018 onwards and at all stages 'from cradle to college', which goes further than the Tories or Labour have promised .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Clegg's policy is £5billion more expensive that what the Conservatives had planned – which is a freeze on schools spending for those aged 5 to 16 and cuts in other areas.
article_snippet.sent: It is £2.5bn more than Labour planned to spend on protecting the entire education budget but not accounting for an expected 460,000 rise in pupil numbers over the next five years. '
article_snippet.sent: The next Government must increase spending on nurseries, schools and colleges.
article_snippet.sent: That means education spending must rise with both prices and pupil numbers', he said. '
article_snippet.sent: The pledge would take education funding from £49bn a year currently to more than £55 by the end of the next Parliament, to be funded by rising economic growth once the deficit is cleared.
article_snippet.sent: A promise on education spending is intended to win over floating voters in key seats where the Lib Dems are facing the Tories, to capitalise on concerns about cuts to public services.
highlights_snippet.sent: Would mean raising spending on education every year from 2018 onwards .
  