Promise to legislate for the Living Wage.
Promise to roll out, over the course of a Parliament, free school meals for all.
Promise to bring Her Majesty's Prisons back into the public sector.
And, in this twentieth anniversary year of the death of John Smith, promise to enact, at long last, his signature policy: that employment rights should begin on Day One of employment, and apply regardless of the number of hours worked.
A three-figure majority is once again being predicted by the polls. It now has been for years. Make the most of it.
So much for any economic recovery. The voters have not noticed one, any more than the inhabitants of Romania (the fastest-growing economy in the EU) and Bulgaria have been persuaded to make their way to this Promised Land of foodbanks and Red Cross food parcels.
So much for any economic recovery. The voters have not noticed one, any more than the inhabitants of Romania (the fastest-growing economy in the EU) and Bulgaria have been persuaded to make their way to this Promised Land of foodbanks and Red Cross food parcels.
Ed Miliband, over to you.
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