Labour goes on election footing

THE Government may yet fall over the medical card controversy and other budget cuts, Labour claimed yesterday, with leader Eamon Gilmore declaring that he was now gearing up for a general election.

Mr Gilmore said “the blame game” had begun within Government over the budget fall-out and “the experience of coalitions in the past is that when trust breaks down a government’s days are numbered”.

That claim was made despite the repeated attempts by the Government to put the medical card controversy to bed.