Ed Miliband positions Labour as party for law-abiding silent majority

Ed Miliband will target asset strippers and antisocial tenants on Tuesday as he vows to rebuild society so that the values of the decent majority are heard, ending a morally inverted system that rewards vested interests with the wrong values.

In his major speech to the Labour party conference, he will also attack suggestions that company executives are the only ones that create prosperity, saying "the true wealth creators are not just an elite, but every man and woman who goes out to work".

In a strong moral judgment, historically avoided by Labour, he will say that those in work and contributing to their local community should be given preference over the jobless in allocating social housing.

The speech is seen as critical to lifting the electorate's doubts about his leadership qualities and the radical political direction he wants to take his party. It will be delivered against a backdrop of a ComRes poll showing the Tories taking a one-point lead, a dispiriting finding for Labour in view of the deepening recession and large spending cuts.   More

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