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Ed Miliband to urge Labour to adopt 'national mission' Miliband urges Labour to inspire with national mission
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Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to urge his party to set out a "national mission" to regain voters' trust. Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party needs to inspire people with a sense of "national mission" if it is to regain power at the next election.
Mr Miliband will say in a speech in London that Labour lost the general election because of policy mistakes. Mr Miliband told a conference in London that Labour had to be honest about its past mistakes.
He will try to distance "his" Labour party from the one led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, says BBC political correspondent Ben Wright. He pledged to tackle the "new inequality" that has grown up between the very wealthy and the rest.
Voters will only return to Labour when the party admits its mistakes when in government, he will say. The BBC's political correspondent Carole Walker said he had not spelled out how he would make these changes.
Income equality
Accepting the scale of the electoral task Labour faces, Mr Miliband will say Labour must also offer a clear and positive vision of the future, one that addresses people's concerns about income inequality and today's generation of youngsters having a harder life than their parents.
In elections earlier this month, Labour was defeated by the SNP in key Scottish heartlands, dropping from 46 seats to 37 at Holyrood, and losing some of its most senior figures.In elections earlier this month, Labour was defeated by the SNP in key Scottish heartlands, dropping from 46 seats to 37 at Holyrood, and losing some of its most senior figures.
A review of the party's poor showing was commissioned by Mr Miliband.
The party fell just short of an overall majority in Wales, but did make strong gains in town halls in the north of England at the expense of the Lib Dems.The party fell just short of an overall majority in Wales, but did make strong gains in town halls in the north of England at the expense of the Lib Dems.
'Depth of betrayal'
Mr Miliband told Labour supporters at the Progress think tank that despite the set backs, Labour was winning back voters.
"We have started to win back trust but we have many more people to convince.
"We won back the Lib Dem voters who had left us," he said, but added that the party had yet to convince Conservatives who had "yet to feel the same depth of betrayal of this government."
He also said that the party had to admit past mistakes such as its policy on immigration.
"Eastern European immigration did place downward pressure on wages. People can argue about the extent. We were too relaxed about that," he said.
'Shrivelled view'
Mr Miliband also highlighted the inequality between "those at the top and everyone else" which grew under the Labour government and said "humility" was needed to acknowledge it.
"Inequality is no longer an issue just between rich and poor. But between those at the top and those both in the middle and on lower incomes," he said.
"Since 2003, those at the top have seen their living standards continue to rise at extraordinary rates, while those of the rest have stagnated," he added.
Contrasting his own vision of "better, optimistic politics" with that of the Conservative-led coalition, he said that all David Cameron was offering voters was "a shrivelled, pessimistic, austere view of the future".
However, BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said Mr Miliband had not managed to spell out in his speech how it was that he would deliver such a future.
"He has to flesh out what it is that Labour is going to do," she said.