will be plain sailing. leila nathoo, bbc news. the conservative party have today said they'll make more cuts to national insurance, if re—elected. but what trade—offs would be needed if they pursue that? for his thoughts, i spoke earlier to pauljohnson, director of the institute for fiscal studies. that would be very difficult to tear. they have announced twovery big cuts coming up. but now, they have said that they want to get the debt down. there really isn't space for more tax cuts unless they are going to spell out exactly what spending cuts are going to come alongside those. not least because, pencilled into the government's figures already, are some harsh spending cuts across from public services.