article_snippet: Tories said Tories plan to eliminate the deficit was necessary and accused Mr Balls of ‘absurd scaremongering’.
article_snippet: Asked if Mr Balls ‘seriously believed that the Conservatives will close down the Foreign Office or close down the Department for Transport or close down the Department for Work and Pensions’, Mr Balls said:
article_snippet: The Tories accused Ed Balls (pictured above) of ‘absurd scaremongering’ after he launched a Labour dossier which suggested three Government departments could disappear under a Conservative Government .
article_snippet: I think fairly ludicrously already having to back track from his speech in which his claimed the next Conservative government would be closing down major government departments.
article_snippet: So Mr Osborne must surely have an alternative plan in Mr Osborne back pocket.
article_snippet: Treasury minister David Gauke said yesterday: ‘’ Mr Balls has today confirmed Labour’s policy of billions of pounds of tax rises, more borrowing and more debt.
article_snippet: David Cameron told the Commons in January:
highlights_snippet: Tories said plan to eliminate deficit was necessary and accused Mr Balls of ‘absurd scaremongering’ after The Shadow Chancellor speech on UK under Tory government .