The "unprecedented" scale of Tory spending cuts would mean the NHS would end up footing the bill, the shadow chancellor has said.
Ed Balls said the Conservatives would take the country back to the 1930s with "colossal" cuts that would amount to £70bn in the next parliament.
He said: "Our analysis shows clearly - countries which reduce public spending at the pace George Osborne intends have found they have had no alternative but to cut health spending.
He added: "This shouldn't be a surprise. When George Osborne's plan means such extreme cuts to day-to-day departmental budgets, it's common sense that the NHS, which makes up a full third of the £317 billion spent in those budgets, ends up footing the bill."
In a speech in central London the shadow chancellor warned the cuts would lead to the smallest police force since comparable records began and the smallest Army since Oliver Cromwell's time.
It came as think-tank Royal United Services Institute warned defence cuts would put 30,000 jobs at risk leaving the combined forces with just 115,000 personnel by 2020.
Mr Balls said if the Conservatives kept their promises to protect spending on health, schools and overseas aid other Government departments would have no budgets for day-to-day running.
He added: "Cuts on this scale would mean closing our embassies around the world, closing down all job centres and back-to-work programmes and all but ending central government's funding for local government. This is clearly impossible to countenance."
Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps said Mr Balls had "lost his marbles" by claming the Tories were planning "extreme" cuts.
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