| "Old fashioned New Labour is now an obstacle" to victory says Ed Miliband |
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He goes on to argue, "Five million votes were lost by Labour between 1997 and 2010, but four out of the five million didn’t go to the Conservatives. One third went to the Liberal Democrats, and most of the rest simply stopped voting. You really don’t need to be a Bennite to believe that this represents a crisis of working-class representation for Labour – and our electability." |
New Labour's focus on affluent voters will no longer win the Party elections, argues Ed Miliband in the last of our Labour Leadership essays. "New Labour’s proposition was simple – we need to persuade Tory voters to come to us. The task is very different now."
