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Labour's Miliband names himself champion of 'hollowed-out' middle class as working class suffers
Labour Party leader ignores low incomes and housing crisis as he commits to keep Tory spending policy if he wins 2015 election
Ed Miliband paraded himself yesterday as the champion of the “middle classes” — mere days after voting for a severe Tory welfare cap on the poor and the sick.
The Labour leader declared in liberal newspaper The Independent that the middle class is being “hollowed out” under an assault from government policies.
But he omitted to mention the working class.
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