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16/02/2015
Labour To Launch Alternative Economic Plan
Labour leader, Ed Miliband, will today lay out a rival economic plan for the UK during a speech to workers at Jaguar Land Rover in Wolverhampton.
Mr Miliband is expected to announce he believes the prosperity of ordinary working families "is key to Britain's industrial revival".
He is also expected to use the speech to criticise the Conservatives for focusing on the rich and powerful "in the hope that their wealth trickles down to the rest of society".
According to reports he will renew a pledge to offer tax breaks to companies who adopt the living wage and raise the minimum wage closer to average earnings.
(MH/CD)
Mr Miliband is expected to announce he believes the prosperity of ordinary working families "is key to Britain's industrial revival".
He is also expected to use the speech to criticise the Conservatives for focusing on the rich and powerful "in the hope that their wealth trickles down to the rest of society".
According to reports he will renew a pledge to offer tax breaks to companies who adopt the living wage and raise the minimum wage closer to average earnings.
(MH/CD)
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