Labour must be tougher on benefits and copy George Galloway’s campaigning techniques if it is to win the election, one of the party’s rising stars has warned.
Rowenna Davis, who is fighting to win the marginal seat of Southampton Itchen, said that the last Labour government had not done enough to wean people off welfare. She said it had been “criminal to leave people financially better off staying at home rather than putting in a hard day’s work”.
In an essay warning the party that it had become too liberal in outlook, she says it must also embrace the party’s more conservative traditions.
It follows repeated accusations that Ed Miliband has made the party too middle class, causing swathes of working class Labour voters to