If the CON GE2015 manifesto had been specific about the tax credit change it’s arguable that they would NOT have won
Next time it’ll harder not to be specific
An interesting point was raised by an SNP MP at PMQs:
“.. the reason David Cameron chose not to include this policy in his manifesto – and the reason he promised before the election not to do it – is because he knows if he had done, he would not have been elected. Pushing working families into poverty even goes against the most right wing Tory rhetoric about those mythical “benefit scroungersâ€.
There’s something in that. This would have been a specific that all the non-CON parties would have been able to get their teeth into and it would have been a big part of the campaign.
I think it will be harder for any party at the next election to make the kind of generalised statements that the Tories did last April/May.