Labour’s fourth election film shifts the focus of the election campaign onto Conservative policies and how they would make families worse off.

The broadcast is a nightmare vision of the future following the election of a Conservative government.  A few weeks after the Conservatives’ emergency Budget cuts £6 billion from public spending, three families in a typical surburban street are visited by a grey-suited government official who tells them:

* The Conservatives have stopped Child Tax Credit payments to hundreds of thousands of families on middle and modest incomes;

* The Conservatives have stopped Child Trust Fund baby bond payments for families with incomes over £16,000;

* The Conservatives have ended the right to see a cancer specialist within two weeks of referral by your GP.

Peter Mandelson, Labour's Chair of Election Strategy, said today:

"Labour has a duty to make sure that every family in Britain knows how much they would lose if the Conservatives were elected.

“The Tories won’t like this film because it exposes how their unfair policies would make British families worse off. It focuses attention on the cuts to family living standards the Tories don’t like talking about.

“This film puts the focus on Tory policy because it is policies and substance that will determine the result of this election. Only a vote for Labour will protect your child tax credit, your child trust fund and your right to see a cancer specialist within two weeks."
 

The film is being mailed and signposted throughout Labour's online community today as a conversation starter in Labour's word of mouth campaign. 

A Nightmare On Your Street will be shown on TV on Wednesday. The film was directed by Stephen Hopkins, who said:
 
“I don’t think David Cameron should be allowed to get away with no real analysis of his policies for the country and what they would mean to families.

“When we are voting for a new Government, nothing is more important than knowing about the real effect of the different policies the parties are offering. This film is a warning to people about the Conservative policies that haven’t made the news yet in this election.”