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The Green party manifesto is even crazier than you’ve heard

My favourite bit is the chapter called ‘It does all add up’

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

I’m disappointed that Ed Balls’s suggestion that the Office of Budget Responsibility should audit the parties’ manifestos was never taken up, not least because we will never know what Robert Chote thinks of the Green party’s claim that all its proposals are ‘fully costed’. Believe it or not, this includes the commitment to spend £45 billion on loft insulation in the next parliament.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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