Labour MP calls for an official pact with the Lib Dems to get Jeremy Corbyn into No 10
Parties have overlap in policies on plans to put up taxes, borrow more and scrapping Trident
A LABOUR leadership contender has called for an official pact with the Lib Dems to get Jeremy Corbyn into No 10.
It came as new research by the Tories showed more than 80 policies featured in both the Lib Dem manifestos — pointing to where agreement for a future coalition deal could be found.
Leadership contender Clive Lewis said “a confidence and supply kind of agreement” would “probably have to happen” if Labour did not get “enough seats for an overall majority”.
He told an interview last week that a deal could be would be conducted on “issue-by-issue basis.”
Tory Chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin told The Sun: “There we have it a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote to put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.”
Last night the Tories added: “The Liberal Democrats and Labour manifestos are near identical in their plans to put up taxes, borrow more and put our security at risk by scrapping Trident.”
They claimed that the overlap in the manifestos included included pledgees over Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax.
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And the Tories leapt on the fact both major opposition parties claim they would give EU citizens the right to stay in the UK, before securing similar rights fro British citizens living on the continent.
Both parties would also end the rights of council house tenants to buy their homes and both would outlaw fracking.
There were more than eighty separate election promises to appeared in both of the leading opposition parties manifesto, to the delight on Conservative big wigs.
Sir Patrick McCloughlin went on: “With senior party figures on both sides openly discussing doing deals and identical policies, it is clearer than ever that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote to put Jeremy Corbyn and his coalition of chaos into Government.”
Meanwhile cross-party anti-austerity group the People’s Assembly launched a well funded poster campaign across 40 marginal seats, declaring: “We’ll do everything we can to make sure Theresa May and her government for the super rich isn’t returned to Downing St.”