Miliband warns: Don’t do Tories’ dirty work for them
Author: By David Hughes, Press Association
On the final day of the Brighton conference, Mr Miliband said Labour had the
energy and ideas to win the next election.
And he accused Tory leader David Cameron of showing the “white flag of
surrender to euro-extremism” in his own party.
But his harshest words were aimed squarely at those on his own side who have
been critical of Gordon Brown’s leadership.
“When members of this party, even MPs, say that nothing much has changed, that
we could use a spell in Opposition – tell them: don’t do the Tories’ dirty
work for them.”
As delegates shouted: “Shame on them!”, Mr Miliband went on: “If we do not
defend the record no one will.
“Our work is not finished. That is what makes us the agents of change in
British politics.”
Mr Miliband dismissed the Conservatives as a “bunch of schoolboys” who would
make the country a laughing stock in international affairs.
“The Tories aren’t a government in waiting,” he said. “They are a national
embarrassment.”
He acknowledged that in the opinion polls the Tories were “back,” adding: “And
that’s our fault.”
But he added: “This is not a country crying out for the Tories. It is a
country that wants to know what we are made of.”
Labour was leading the world on climate change, raising Britain’s influence in
Europe and reforming the welfare state.
“Don’t believe that we have run out of steam. We haven’t. So let’s show the
country that we’ve still got the energy, the ideas, the hunger, the
commitment.
“This is a fight for the future of our country. It is a fight we must win.”
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