Unite: Ed Miliband delivers 'on your side speech'
Thursday, 14 February 2013
3:59 PM
Ed Miliband has delivered a 'Key' speech on the economy and drawn the dividing line for the election in 2015 say Unite.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said:
"This is a key speech. Ed Miliband is breaking free from the failed neo liberal project embraced by both the Conservatives and New Labour. Today Ed has shown that his heart is in the right place defending working people.
"The restoration of the 10p tax rate is an important and welcome step towards building a fairer and more equal society. We believe Ed can go even further by announcing an extra £1 on the minimum wage as President Obama has called for across the Atlantic.
"The Labour leader has drawn the dividing lines for the next election. In 2015 voters will have a clear choice, ten more years of austerity and misery, or the hope offered by a Labour government that will be on the side of the people, not the one per cent.
ENDS
Contact:Ciaran Naidoo on 07768 931 315
Notes to editors: Unite is Britain and Ireland’s largest trade union with 1.5 million members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Len McCluskey.
Tags: - 10p tax rate
, - austerity
, - ed miliband
, - labour
, - labour leadership
, - labour party
, - mansion tax
, - miliband
, - miliband leadership
, - minimum wage
, - national minimum wage
, - squeezed middle
Disclaimer: Press releases published on this page are from key opinion formers
who promote their organisation's activities by subscribing to a campaign site within
politics.co.uk. politics.co.uk does not endorse, edit, or attempt to balance the
opinions expressed on this page. The content of press releases are wholly the responsibility
of the originating company or organisation.
Read Ed Miliband's speech on the mansion tax and a 10p rate, in full and unedited.
The Labour leader is ahead in the polls and powering towards Downing Street as he leaves a divided Tory party in his wake. But you wouldn't know it.
Labour leader Ed Miliband comments on Nick Clegg's speech on income tax and Britain at 'boiling point':
Read Ed Miliband's speech to Unite in full on politics.co.uk.
Ed Miliband's audacious tax proposals were slammed by Britain's leading economic experts today as "a remarkable failure to learn from history".
Reactions to Ed Milliband's speech to the Labour party conference.
Read Ed Miliband's speech on responsibility in full, on politics.co.uk.
Read Ed Miliband's speech on the upcoming autumn statement in full on politics.co.uk.
Read Ed Miliband's speech to the TUC in full on politics.co.uk.
Labour's newfound acceptance of austerity measures has triggered an explosive attack from the general secretary of Unite.
