The Conservatives have come up with the claim that Labour would "cost working families £2,094" - in speeches, they tend to round it down to £2,000 - by adding up how much they claim Labour’s spending plans would cost, and dividing this by the number of UK households with at least one person working.

The overall figure is £38.5bn - over the next four years - which Labour disputes.

The Conservatives say the costings have been worked out by impartial civil servants, but some doubt has been cast on that this morning. 

For example, one costing looks at Labour’s plan to have more services provided by the state instead of by private companies and it assumes that private companies are always 7.5% more efficient. But the civil servants doing the costings warned about the use of that figure.

And, remember, we won’t know exactly what Labour’s policies are - and how they will be funded - until we see their manifesto, which has not yet been published.


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