“Ask yourselves why will the Tories not give a guarantee to a cancer patient that they will see a specialist within two weeks?

“Why will they not give a guarantee of an 18 week wait before you get your NHS treatment? Why won’t they give a guarantee about weekend and evening opening of GPs’ surgeries?

“Why won’t they give a guarantee about neighbourhood policing? Why won’t they give a guarantee of these things?

“The reason is that they don’t want to bind themselves to the services which are personal to people’s needs. Services which the vast majority of people rely on.

“If you can afford to buy these services yourselves you are not going to worry too much about whether they come or go.

“If you can’t afford these things yourself – and that is the vast majority of middle and low income people in this country – then these services really matter.

“I sometimes think the Conservatives do not understand that people on middle and low incomes cannot rely on private health, cannot rely on private education, cannot rely on private security.

“People need these services. And they need these services provided by the government which is on their side.” Gordon Brown, The Daily Mirror.

We need more of this if Labour is to defeat the Tories and what ever you might think of Labour only the rich can afford a Tory government.