General Election 2010: Labour Party launch families manifesto: press conference with Mandelson, Balls and Cooper

General Election 2010: Labour Party launch families manifesto: press conference with Mandelson, Balls and Cooper; ENGLAND: London: Labour HQ: INT Lord Mandelson (Peter Mandelson) (Business Secretary) introduction SOT - Welcome / A lot of talk over the last few days about coalitions, hot air... Talk about one coalition, coalition of cuts for our kids, Tories and Lib Dems ... cuts to child's tax credits ... Will fight all the way ... Setting out the dangers this coalition poses ... Yvette Cooper MP (Work and Pensions Secretary) speech SOT - Today set out our manifesto for families / Since 97 we've improved the support for all families / We've increased the support / Go further, highlight / Toddler tax credit - 200 a year / Pay fathers month - spend time with baby / Not just mums looking after in that special time / Dfferent approach to cons and lib dems / A third of the families who benefit actually have children / They lose from cuts in child credit / Unfair, irresponsible and out of date / Wrong to say their families are second class / Here is something on which those two parties agree / We want to increase family tax credit / Speaks about losses to family if tax credits cut / If they're serious about govt they owe it to ... We think there's a lot of families in the middle who need help and support