Ed Miliband will tell middle-class voters this week that only radical reforms can secure their standard of living.
The Labour leader’s speech on the economy is a bid to broaden his electoral appeal following a warning from Alastair Campbell that he is unlikely to win the next election outright and is heading for a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Miliband set the political weather last autumn with his pledge to freeze energy prices. The Government was left fumbling for a response to claims that most workers’ living standards were falling despite the nascent economic recovery.
Aides admit that with increases in earnings likely to overtake price rises this year, Labour’s leader needs to develop a new line of attack. They say that he will