Ed Balls would 'save' NHS with cash injection in quickfire first budget

Exclusive: In an interview with the Guardian, Balls has said that if Labour wins the election, he would move quickly to boost 2015-16 spending

The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, has said a Labour victory in the tightest election of modern times would be followed by an immediate NHS cash injection as the centrepiece of a budget to fast-track the party’s key manifesto pledges.

While stressing that the result was going to be “very close”, Balls said that if he moves into 11 Downing Street he will use a tobacco levy, a mansion tax and a crackdown on tax avoidance to boost health spending in the 2015-16 financial year that began a month ago.

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