A good performance from Ed Miliband on the Today programme this morning.
His voice sounded hoarse, which added to the sense of gravitas (normally he seems to be swallowing his words, which always gives the impression that he is nervous and unsure about what he is saying).
"The cost of living crisis" seems to be the ground on which Labour is choosing to fight the next election.
This is a gamble, mainly because the average cost of living is definable in monetary terms and therefore easy to adjust (at least for twenty months or so) through taxes and subsidies.
I am surprised that no-one in the media seems to have picked up on Ed Miliband's statement that David Cameron brought in the "bedroom tax". It was of course the last Labour government who brought in the "bedroom tax" for housing benefit tenants in the private sector - all the Coalition have done is made the requirement fair across tenants in both private and public housing. Can someone please ask whether Labour is proposing to abolish the "bedroom tax" in both the private and public sectors? (and if for the private sector housing benefit tenants are they going to apologise for introducing it in the first place?).
His voice sounded hoarse, which added to the sense of gravitas (normally he seems to be swallowing his words, which always gives the impression that he is nervous and unsure about what he is saying).
"The cost of living crisis" seems to be the ground on which Labour is choosing to fight the next election.
This is a gamble, mainly because the average cost of living is definable in monetary terms and therefore easy to adjust (at least for twenty months or so) through taxes and subsidies.
I am surprised that no-one in the media seems to have picked up on Ed Miliband's statement that David Cameron brought in the "bedroom tax". It was of course the last Labour government who brought in the "bedroom tax" for housing benefit tenants in the private sector - all the Coalition have done is made the requirement fair across tenants in both private and public housing. Can someone please ask whether Labour is proposing to abolish the "bedroom tax" in both the private and public sectors? (and if for the private sector housing benefit tenants are they going to apologise for introducing it in the first place?).
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