Labour attacks 'extreme' Tory NHS spending plans

Poster campaign warns the NHS cannot afford the impending ‘rollercoaster’ on public spending identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility

Labour has launched a graphic election poster, featuring an X-ray of a broken leg with a warning that the NHS will be “cut to the bone” by the Tories, as they intensify their attack on George Osborne’s “extreme” spending plans.

Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, warned that the NHS cannot afford “extreme and risky Tory cuts” after the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) suggested that day-to-day spending on public services could fall to its lowest level since 1938.