General election: Economy: Tory tax plans

General election: Economy: Tory tax plans; ITN London: Smith Square: Conservative Central Office: INT Francis Maude (Shadow Foreign Secretary) at podium for press conference LMS Ditto Francis Maude (Shadow Foreign Secretary) press conference SOT - Talks of aspirations to reduce taxation Millbank: Chancellor Gordon Brown into room for press conference PAN to applause CBV Man attending press conference CBV More ditto Gordon Brown (Chancellor) press conference SOT - Talks of Tory tax and spending plans unravelling WALES: Cardiff: LA CMS Hague standing at podium holding copy of Welsh Conservative Party manifesto CBV Ditto William Hague (Conservative Party Leader) press conference SOT - £8 billion (in tax cuts) is the only figure we have given and the only figure we will be giving ENGLAND: Birmingham: Edgbaston: EXT Shadow Chancellor Michael Portillo talking to secondary schoolgirls wearing Conservative rosettes INT Michael Portillo (Shadow Chancellor) interview SOT - Talks of tax cutting aspirations London: Islington: EXT CMS Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy reading from book during visit to primary school PULL OUT as sat with primary schoolchildren CMS Primary schoolchildren Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat Leader) speaking to press SOT - Tory tax cut plans are a recipe for social disaster London: Smith Square: INT Conservative poster featuring picture of Gordon Brown holding budget box and caption 'For a limited period only' used as backdrop to press conference PAN Portillo, Oliver Letwin (Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury) and another sat at desk