ED MILIBAND IS THE ONE NATION PRIME MINISTER THIS COUNTRY NEEDS

Ed Miliband’s speech about One Nation Labour’s mission to rebuild Britain is going down well. Instinctively, British people know that we will only overcome the challenges we face in Britain if we pull together as a country with everyone playing their part.

One Nation Labour wants a Britain where everyone has a stake, prosperity is fairly shared and the institutions that bind us together, like the NHS, are preserved. Responsibility is required at the bottom and the top.

Most of all, I think there is a genuine sense that Ed Miliband ‘gets it’ – unlike David Cameron and his out of touch Tories. People are starting to see that he can be the One Nation Prime Minister to lead the change Britain needs. He will bring this country together, while David Cameron is dividing it.

David Cameron cannot be a One Nation Prime Minister when this April he has chosen to give 8,000 millionaires a tax cut of £40,000, while millions of families and pensioners are paying more.

David Cameron can’t be a One Nation Prime Minister when he is breaking up the NHS he promised to save. And he can’t be a One Nation Prime Minister when he stands aside while a million young people are unemployed.

With a majority of just 613, I am well aware that many people in Derby turned away from Labour and voted for David Cameron in 2010 and I think understand why. Many people wanted to give David Cameron’s Conservatives the benefit of the doubt when he made his promises of change. Others thought the Liberal Democrats were a genuine progressive force in British politics. But the truth is the Liberal Democrats have jettisoned every single one of the principles they claimed to believe in, and although David Cameron promised change, nothing is changing.

The only party that can deliver real change is a One Nation Labour Party.