Ed Balls, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, responding to David Cameron’s interview on the Today programme where he repeatedly failed to say where his £12bn of cuts to social security would come from, said:

“David Cameron is ducking and weaving because he still cannot admit the truth. His pledge to cut £12 billion from social security means cutting child benefit and tax credits again.

"Tory plans would mean 4.3 million families losing an average of £1,000 a year in child benefit. And a family on £23,000 with one child would lose £1,600 a year in tax credits.

"Child benefit and tax credits are now on the ballot paper tomorrow. There is a clear choice between Labour’s better plan which will protect working families and another Tory raid on family budgets. Working people can’t afford five more years of the Tories.”