Miliband: We’ve lost touch with the ‘squeezed middle’

Ed Miliband outlines his aims for Labour’s policy review:

[To the Today programme]: “I think our problem is a more complex problem than Tony Blair found in the 1990s, or indeed David Cameron after 2005… our problem was we lost touch with people on a whole range of issues.”

[Writing in the Telegraph]: “We must understand why, despite all that was achieved over the last decade, so many people who work hard and want to get on came to feel squeezed. Why did too many families feel that the gap between their lives and their dreams became larger and harder to bridge?

“It will be to Labour that this squeezed middle must look to understand their hopes. They and their concerns will be at the heart of our policy review and plans to change Britain.”