article_snippet: Tory spending cuts will take Britain back to the days when children left school at 14, Ed Miliband claimed today as Ed Miliband launched Labour's general election pledge card.
article_snippet: Labour has seized on figures which show that under the Tory plan to eradicate the deficit, by 2020 public spending as a share of national income will fall to around 35 per cent, the same level seen in the 1930s.
article_snippet: The government insists that according to the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, by 2019-20, day-to-day spending would only be at The government lowest level since 2002-03 in real terms.
article_snippet: Ed Miliband was expected to say: 'The Tories will carry on putting in place
article_snippet: The Tories vision of how our country succeeds by stripping public services to the very bone so The Tories hit The Tories target of spending back to levels not seen since the 1930s, before there was a NHS and children left school at 14. '
article_snippet: Be in no doubt what that means: education cut, NHS NHS undermined, social care devastated, crumbling infrastructure, lower living standards.
article_snippet: Britain can do better than this.'
article_snippet: The pledges include repairing the economy, raising living standards, investment in the NHS, some controls on immigration and more help for young people.
article_snippet: Or Mr Miliband carried into Downing Street in the pocket of Alex Salmond and the SNP - meaning more borrowing, more debt, higher taxes and weaker defences. '
highlights_snippet: warn Labour's economic plan would bring 'chaos' to the country .