Jonathan Ashworth MP, Shadow Minister without Portfolio, responding to David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference, said:

“The Tories are failing working people. For all the talk of making life better for people, the truth is David Cameron is doing the opposite.

“You can’t claim to be in the common ground of British politics when you’re cutting the tax credits working families rely on, leaving 3 million of them on average £1,300 a year worse off. You can’t claim to care about the housing crisis when you’ve overseen the lowest level of housebuilding in peacetime since the 1920s. And you can’t claim you care about the NHS when you’ve pushed up waiting lists, made it harder to see a GP and plunged hospitals in to financial crisis.

“David Cameron can talk all he likes about the common ground but the truth is working people are worse off under the Tories.”