There will be a vote on the Government’s Charter for Budget Responsibility today.

There will be a vote on the Government’s Charter for Budget Responsibility today.

At the Budget, the Chancellor updated the Charter for Budget Responsibility so we continue to reduce the deficit as part of our long-term economic plan – helping to build a stronger, more competitive economy and secure a better future for Britain.

By voting for our updated plan to reduce the deficit and cap welfare, Labour would be making a promise that they intend to break in office – because their actual policy is to borrow more and spend more, including on welfare. That’s exactly how they got us into a mess in the first place. And despite voting for the welfare cap, Labour are promising to breach it in office by restoring the spare room subsidy – a welfare spending rise.

Nothing will change – it’s the same old Labour with no plan to secure Britain’s future.

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SSE have announced they will freeze energy prices until 2016 as a result of cuts to green taxes

As SSE say themselves, the Government's decision to cut the taxes that add to energy bills was the “principal factor in SSE being able to make this price commitment”.

The only long-term way to keep hardworking families’ energy bills down is to cut the taxes that add to those bills and increase competition in the market through our annual test.

Ed Miliband’s policy is a short-term, political fix that would lead to higher bills, meaning less financial security for hardworking people.