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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband put class on the ballot paper in his final speech of the general election campaign yesterday.
Addressing a rally in Pendle, Mr Miliband said that Britain faced the “clearest choice for a generation” at the ballot box today. He appealed for undecided voters to back Labour, saying: “I’m asking you to vote for a country where we put working families first. “That’s what’s on the ballot paper.”
Turning to the Tories, he added: “I’m not simply asking you to reject the Conservatives but to reject their plan to put the rich and powerful first.“I’m asking you to reject a plan to double the cuts next year and devastate our NHS.”
According to Opinium’s final poll, the Tories led Labour by 35 per cent to 34 per cent yesterday.
But a ComRes poll for Good Morning Britain showed there were still millions of voters yet to be convinced by any party. It found that only 35 per cent of voters who were undecided at the beginning of the campaign have made up their mind. And Mr Miliband believes that Labour, which has more activists on the ground than the Tories, has a better chance of winning the hearts and minds of undecided voters today.
The Star reported in January his vow to take on the big-money Tories by campaigning “house by house, street by street, town by town.”
Labour hoped to have four million conversations with voters by polling day. But Mr Miliband announced yesterday that Labour had exceeded that target, speaking to five million voters in just four months.
“The Labour Party will have more members, more activists, more volunteers out on the streets tomorrow than all the other main parties combined,” he said.
“People don’t want to knock on doors for the Tories.”
Labour media mastermind David Axelrod, who ran Barack Obama’s US presidential election campaigns, also criticised the Tory campaign as he returned to the US yesterday. “I think the Tory campaign has not been a particularly good one on the whole,” he told the Politico website.
“They felt that the recovery of the macro-economy translated into a sense of progress and security in the lives of everyday people and that simply wasn’t true.”
