Cost of living: is Labour becoming a one-trick pony?

Frontbencher warns party must update economic message

Ed Miliband
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Labour risks becoming a “one-trick pony” if it continues to base its electoral strategy on the cost of living issue, a senior party figure has warned.

With the general election a year away, Labour frontbencher Alan Milburn says the party needs to alter its message on the economy. “This is the endgame . . . therefore it is really important we are not seen as a one-trick pony on the cost of living,” he tells the Sunday Times.

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