Back when he was leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband came up with a phrase to describe those who, while not exactly poor, were finding life tougher than it used to be. The “squeezed middle” summed up Britain in the years after the financial crisis: the stagnant wages, the falling living standards, the spending cuts that were starting to bite.
Phrases – even good ones – don’t win elections, and Labour went down to defeat in the 2015 election. But Miliband’s slogan has matured with age and it is now clear that he was ahead of his time. The […]
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