“Everything will be very tightly costed and there won’t be big spending commitments.”

David Miliband has just confirmed to Sky News that there will be no spending major committments in Labour's manifesto.

Due out tomorrow,the Foreign Secretary told the programme that it would be more like the 1997 manifesto than a 2001 or 2007,

“Everything will be very tightly costed and there won’t be big spending commitments.”

Radical Manifesto for Labour

The London Evening Standard's Political Editor,Joe Murphy,is repoting that Gordon Brwon has pledged that Labour will produce a radical agenda for the election.

The Prime Minister and senior ministers agreed on a strategy of using eye-catching pledges to persuade voters that Labour is a party of change, despite having been in power for 12 years.

he writes adding that he wants to counter

Mr Cameron's claim that the Tories offered a change from Labour. He argued that the “big choice” would be between two parties, each offering change.