Foreign bankers warn against Labour – surprise, surprise

Should George Osborne really be invoking foreign investment bankers in support of a Tory victory?

Labour leader Ed Miliband with the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls
(Image credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

It may be St George’s Day, but George Osborne has stirred up a hornet’s nest by quoting a list of foreign investment bankers who say the election of a Labour government backed by the SNP would be an economic calamity for Britain.

With new figures due today on government debt and borrowing in March, and with the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies publishing its analysis of the economic plans of Labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems this morning, the economy is centre stage in the election campaign once again.

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