NEW YORK Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted yesterday the “voodoo” trickle-down economics backed by the Tories and their right-wing Republican sister party.

Mr de Blasio ended decades of Republican rule in the Big Apple when he was elected last January on a radical programme which inspired voters.

He remembered how he had overturned the odds to become mayor because “everyday New Yorkers, too, were hungry for a clean break from the status quo.”

And he told Labour conference yesterday that Britain is also “ready for bold, progressive change.”

He said: “Ed Miliband understands the true cost of a status quo that puts a barrier between working people and prosperity.”

That came in contrast to “the vague hope that money would magically trickle down” offered by the Tories, said Mr de Blasio as he loved-bombed Labour.

“In my country that’s an approach we call voodoo economics.”