Leaders clash on free eye tests for over-60s

A quarrel between Gordon Brown and David Cameron during the second televised debate between the three prime ministerial candidates appears to have secured the continued provision of free eye tests for over-60s after the general election.

Cameron accused Prime Minister Brown of scaremongering over the distribution of leaflets claiming that his party would withdraw free eye tests and prescriptions if elected. Brown accused the Conservatives of failing to state they would continue the provision of free eye tests and prescriptions in their manifesto.

'We don't list everything in our manifesto and Labour claims that we will scrap free eye tests and prescriptions for the elderly are 100 per cent wrong,' a Conservative party spokesperson told Optician following the debate.