The claim: The Conservatives claim Labour would spend an additional £1.2tn over the next five years.Reality Check verdict: Without having seen the Labour Party manifesto, it is impossible to reach an accurate tally. The Conservative Party released a dossier, which claimed that a Labour government would mean extra spending of £1.2tn. The Conservatives arrived at this figure by adding up spending pledges from Labour's manifesto in 2017, commitments made by the shadow cabinet since then and policies passed by the Labour Party conference. But the Labour Party has not yet published its manifesto, so the Conservative Party does not yet know what spending commitments it will contain.Just because certain policy positions were passed at the Labour conference or appeared in Labour's 2017 manifesto, there is no guarantee they will be adopted for 2019.And indeed, more spending pledges have been added, such as the plan to nationalise part of BT, to give free broadband to everyone.That … [Read more...] about General Election 2019: Tory £1.2 trillion Labour spending claim fact-checked
