Ed Miliband: Labour must win back middle classes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/21/ed-miliband-labour-middle-classes


Ed Miliband: Labour must win back middle classes

Labour leader sets out mission to regain trust of voters by admitting to past mistakes and pledging to tackle inequality

Ed Miliband has said the Labour party must offer a new national mission to win back voters who deserted them for the Conservatives.

In a speech to the Progress thinktank in London, Miliband pledged to tackle the "new inequality" between the rich and the rest of society, but also admitted the gap had grown under the last Labour government.

The party would only succeed in regaining power if it could counter the "shrivelled, pessimistic, austere" vision of David Cameron and the Conservatives, he said.





from his lips to god's ears?

I like Miliband; a bit inexperienced perhaps, but a good man, and not a Tory like Blair. I hope he gets to be PM, and I hope that it doesn't take another 4 years.

you all are about to raise interest rates -- a real blow to working and middle classes.

i feel bad, man -- i think you guys are in for a rough hoe.