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Ed Miliband is in the South West today – and whilst in Plymouth the Labour leader spoke out again on the row over wealthy businessmen and tax avoidance that has raged since the weekend. Miliband said that he believed this had been “five days which showed the two different paths for Britain”.
Here’s what he said:
“There has been a row this week about tax avoidance and business.
Amid the usual Westminster noise it seemed to me to show us a truth about our country.
It was five days which showed the two different paths for Britain.
The Conservatives believe that when a few at the top succeed, the country succeeds. So they serve hedge funds, tax avoiders, and bankers getting big bonuses while millions faces jobs on zero hours, with low pay.
We think a country succeeds with an economy based on a different idea that it is only when working people succeed that Britain succeeds: rewarding hard work for all, skills for all our young people, an economy that serves businesses large and small with no vested interest, from the energy companies to the banks to the hedge funds able to hold our country back.
Our plan is not just fairer it is also better for families, for businesses and for our prosperity.”
This certainly doesn’t seem to be a row that Miliband or the party are planning on backing away from, or seeking to diffuse…
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