10 Years on - Blair/Brown record is one of war and waste!

4.00.00pm UTC (GMT +0000) Mon 30th Apr 2007

Ahead of tomorrow's 10th anniversary of Labour coming to power, the Liberal Democrats have released a dossier assessing the record of the Blair-Brown administration. The paper accuses the government of presiding over rising carbon emissions, soaring NHS debts and an illegal war. Visiting Dunfermline - the next-door constituency to the Chancellor's - on Saturday, Sir Menzies Campbell said Gordon Brown's time at the Treasury had seen falling social mobility, rising poverty and increasing inequality

Liberal Democrat Sir Ming Campbell said "The Blair-Brown government has wasted its opportunities. After ten years of Labour, the rates of social mobility have fallen, the number of working people in poverty has risen, and the income gap between rich and poor is wider than at any point under Thatcher. But above all else, the Blair-Brown government will be remembered for its decision to go to war in Iraq. It was an illegal war waged on false claims. We should never forget the political alliance that led Britain into the Iraq war. It was the Prime Minister who took the decision, the Chancellor who signed the cheque, and the Tories that voted it through. That's the record for which the Blair-Brown government will be remembered: war and waste."