Gordon Brown should be straight about his spending plans

David Cameron accused Gordon Brown of being “incapable of being straight with the British public” at Prime Minister’s Questions.

He asked the Prime Minister to admit that Labour are planning to cut total spending – and when Mr. Brown claimed that spending would continue to rise, David pointed to a Treasury document that said there would be a ‘reduction in medium-term spending’.

"If even the Treasury is going around giving presentations around the country saying public spending as a total is being cut why can't he accept the truth?"

David said that not even the Cabinet were following Gordon Brown’s “ludicrous line” that spending would not be cut.

And when the Prime Minister refused to confirm that there would be a full departmental spending review before the next election, David stressed:

“Everyone will conclude that they don’t want a spending review because they do not want to own up to the cuts they are planning.”