Ed Balls: Miliband debate at risk of ‘caricature’

Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls comments on the current state of the contest to Left Foot Forward, attacking the Miliband frontrunners.

“From candidates who said they wanted to move beyond the New Labour/old Labour debates of the past, there is a danger of walking into caricatures.

“The idea that we should either only focus on unskilled working people on the one hand or only focus on middle England on the other, I think both those things are pretty out of date.

“I think there’s a bit of a contradiction between leadership candidates who say we must listen to the party more but then start off the whole leadership contest by announcing they have all the answers.”