Clegg attacks Tories’ ‘vanity projects’

As the Liberal Democrat leader launches the party’s local election campaign, he will lump the Tories together with Labour and claim both have a record in local government of waste and inefficiency.

The attack marks the start of what is expected to be weeks of tough campaigning ahead of the May 2 poll.

Mr Clegg will tell voters in Cornwall: “Difficult decisions will need to be made in local government, just as in national government, and people understand that. But they – rightly – expect that their representatives should make the fairest possible decisions.

“A vote for Labour or the Tories will be a vote for the same thing.

“Even when millions of families are feeling the pinch, they’ll both squander taxpayers’ money on waste, inefficiency and their own vanity projects.”