We were promised an improvement in job growth prospects, reductions in costs, no taxes on the middle class, and even scolded that we could keep our trusted doctors.

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Many Labour candidates including cabinet ministers rammed home the idea that the Conservatives could not be trusted to keep the peace.

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He concluded that it was essential to reassure them that Tories could be trusted to keep on paying for schools and hospitals.

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