Tories borrow more on average than Labour

[the other bob wilson]

Don't you think the average has been skewed by the deficit being 157bn in 2009 and only being halved in the past 8 years?

What would the average be if the Tories inherited a surplus in 2010 like the Tories left Labour in 1997?

The average has definitely been affected by what has happened since 2008, but the author then discounted the last eight years and, although the difference in the averages was a lot less, the Tories still borrowed more than Labour during the period 1946/2008.