Miliband to invoke wartime spirit to deal with “economic emergency”

At a Q&A today in Manchester (outside of the secure zone and with voters – not conference attendees), Ed Miliband will invoke the spirit of wartime, to explain how Britain must tackle the “economic emergency”. He’s expected to say:

“This is an economic emergency. We are at risk of a decade-long decline in living standards. For millions of families, the prospects feel bleaker now than for 50 years, since the Second World War.

“And we will need the same spirit to overcome this crisis as Britain showed then and in our gravest moments through history: the same spirit, the same determination, the same sense of national mission that there was as our parents and grandparents rebuilt Britain after the Second World War.

“The task of our generation is different than it was then but it has this in common: we need to rebuild.”