The Labour leader says the Tories don't "provide the funding" for their pledges and "hope nobody notices".
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    Mr Sunak’s pledges include a new Help to Buy scheme to support first time buyers to purchase a home and a 2p cut in employee National Insurance.

    "Mr Corbyn’s manifesto for the 2019 general election was a wide-ranging and ambitious proposal, including promises of free broadband for all and nationalisation of energy firms and the water industry.

    At the time Sir Keir, who was then the shadow Brexit secretary, praised the manifesto saying it offered “real change” and “an ambition to meet the needs” of the country.

    Asked on Tuesday why he was now attacking a manifesto he previously supported, Sir Keir said it was Labour’s defeat in the 2019 election that persuaded him to “change” the party.

    "As well as comparing Mr Sunak to Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Keir also accused the prime minister of pursuing a similar approach to his predecessor Liz Truss.He warned that “unfunded” commitments could crash the economy and that “if you lose control of the economy it’s working people who pay the price.”Reacting to the manifesto, Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies public spending think tank, said he had a “degree of scepticism” over the “uncertain, unspecific and apparently victimless savings” that would pay for tax cuts.He also said the party “remained silent” on where public spending cuts, implied by the Budget in March, would fall.

    Earlier this year, the think tank accused both Labour and the Conservatives of a “conspiracy of silence” over the spending cuts or tax rises that would need to be made following the next election.

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