Peter Hoskin

Will this have the same impact as it did in 1979?

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You felt it had to come at some time, and here it is – the Tories have reworked the original ‘Labour isn’t working’ poster (30 years old this year) for the current recession.  As Fraser suggested earlier, you can expect this message to form their central attack from now until polling day.

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