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Opinion: every manifesto should come with a price tag

Voters deserve to know what a promise costs and who pays.

Opinion: every manifesto should come with a price tag
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Promises are easy to make. Costs are harder to find.

If every party published a simple cost table, voters could compare plans fairly, whatever their politics.

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