Article: Taxpayers financing Labour's Budget ad.

Labour is dipping into taxpayers' money to produce leaflets on the May Budget - publicity that is almost certainly election advertising under its new Electoral Finance Act and will have to be counted in its election expenses.

That means large sums of public money will again have gone towards a Labour election campaign.

The cost of the leaflet may also have to be declared as a donation by Parliament to the Labour Party under the troublesome new law, which is not how Labour intended it to work.

Labour's A4 folded, coloured leaflet is titled "A fair economy for a strong future".

It is being distributed throughout the country, within the new regulated period that ...

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