When in office the Conservatives failed to meet the Golden Rule. From 1986 to 1997 they failed by a margin of £240 billion and in the cycle from 1977 to 1986 by £140 billion. They borrowed only to fund the immediate pressures of the day with no long-term return to the taxpayer and our vital public services were damaged as a result.

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