article_snippet: The 31-page Labour document painted a bleak picture of life under a Conservative ‘35 per cent state’, a reference to plans to reduce public spending as a proportion of GDP.
article_snippet: Mr Balls insisted a Conservative Government would have to make £70billion of spending cuts to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18.
article_snippet: Mr Balls suggested avoiding some of the ‘extreme cuts’ outlined in The 31-page Labour document would be possible only by raising VAT, slashing the NHS budget or imposing charges for healthcare.
article_snippet: But Mr Balls declined to set out how much spending Labour would cut if Labour regains office, or where the axe would fall.
article_snippet: A Labour aide added that The 31-page Labour document had set out an ‘implausible scenario’ to illustrate the difficulty of The Tories achieving The Tories deficit reduction plan.
article_snippet: Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps said Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps had pledged to cut £30billion in the next parliament – £13billion from departmental budgets, £12billion from welfare and £5billion from closing tax loopholes.
article_snippet: ’ Mr Balls insisted that to achieve a budget surplus by the end of the next parliament, Mr Osborne would have to deliver ‘colossal cuts’ to public spending.
article_snippet: ‘An unprecedented £70billion of spending cuts would be deeply destructive and close to impossible, even for this Chancellor,’ Mr Osborne said.
article_snippet: Labour has committed to only tiny spending cuts such as removing the winter fuel allowance from the richest pensioners.
article_snippet: Labour's doom-laden dossier says the Tories’ ‘extreme plans’ would mean £70billion in cuts and have a ‘crushing impact’ on public services.
article_snippet: Labour said Tory plans are ‘so extreme as to make Tory plans close to impossible to deliver while maintaining current projections for areas such as the NHS... a 35 per cent state is not compatible with an NHS as we know an NHS.
article_snippet: Elsewhere in the world, the worst health cuts have come in countries that failed to control public spending – such as Portugal, Greece and Italy.
article_snippet: Labour says Labour is ‘safe to assume’ that ‘even deeper’ cuts would Labourhave to be delivered through further restrictions on eligibility’.
highlights_snippet: The Shadow Chancellor says next four years of cuts will be worse than last five .
  
highlights_snippet: Cuts will be 'the most extreme in post-war history', The Shadow Chancellor warned in a speech .
  