GRABBER BROWN HAS MADE FAMILIES POORER

Up to 100,000 parents unable to get their child into their choice of school last year.

Nearly one million more people living in severe poverty now than when Labour came to power, with life expectancy for the poorest at its lowest since Victorian times.

The stinging indictment  will be outlined by the Con­servatives in a document today before a key address by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne tomorrow.

Focusing on why millions of people feel that they are being treated unfairly by the Government, the speech is timed to coincide with Mr Brown’s latest attempt to relaunch his lame premiership.

Although it is expected to concentrate on fairness, Mr Osborne said: “This latest desperate relaunch will sink, just like the others, because under Labour Britain has become more unfair.

“The compelling dossier we are launching shows that  Labour’s policies have made Britain more unfair.

“The truth is Gordon Brown’s old-fashioned Leftist idea that ‘only the state can guarantee fairness’ has led to a decade of top-down state control policies that have made our country less fair. Brown’s Labour means an unfair Britain.”

The Conservatives’ assessment accuses the Govern­ment of “failing fundament­ally” even on Mr Brown’s
“narrow definition” of fairness in terms of equality.

It said: “For too many people in Britain today, especially the most vulnerable, Labour is failing to deliver fairness.” Mr Osborne said: “We will show how fair and progressive goals are now best achieved by Conservative means.

“Our emphasis on opportunity and responsibility will succeed where their top-down state control has failed.

“We are going to step up the pressure to make sure that Gordon Brown’s obsession with his own short-term survival does not do long-term damage to Britain. That would not be fair.”

Treasury Minister Angela Eagle retorted: “Labour is delighted the battle is to be joined on fairness when we are fighting a Tory party that, for all the talk of change, is still committed to the old unfair policies.

“This is the same Tory Party that opposed the minimum wage, opposed pension credit and the winter fuel allowance, opposed support for families through tax credits and still won’t commit to any real pledge on child poverty.

“George Osborne’s scattergun attack is just another example of the Conservatives trying to avoid tough questions about their own un­funded and unfair policies.”

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