Cameron accuses Brown of cover-up over cuts
Updated on 16 September 2009
The Conservative party says a leaked Treasury document suggests Labour was planning major spending cuts. Cathy Newman reports
Gordon Brown has already admitted there will have to be public spending cuts.
Now the prime minister stands accused by the Conservatives of misleading parliament about the true scale of those cuts.
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne says a leaked Treasury document suggests the government was planning reductions of 9 per cent, despite previous denials from the prime minister.
Analysis with Faisal Islam
Conservative party leader David Cameron accused Mr Brown of a cover-up, but Downing Street denied parliament had been misled.
The leaked Treasury document reveals the true state of the public finances and tells us things we did not know before about Britain's economic prospects.
The document, which includes forecasts for departmental spending until 2014, envisages the social security budget rising to nearly £200bn - as unemployment figures released today show the number of people out of work reaching a 14-year high.
