Gordon Brown puts Labour party on war footing

By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor Published: 9:00PM GMT twenty February 2010

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The Prime Minister came out fighting as he appealed for initial time Labour citizens who swept the celebration to energy in 1997 to give him an additional chance.

Mr Brown claimed he was charity the "progressive" policies that would take Britain forward.

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But his explain to be seeking to the destiny was undermined when it emerged that the choosing aphorism he denounced was in actuality an old one used by Tony Blair 7 years ago.

"A Future Fair For All" was the pretension of a discussion request in 2003 that discussed, between alternative things, the intensity benefits of fasten the euro.

Mr Brown used a celebration convene at Warwick University to glow the starting gun for the choosing with an interest to artificial citizens to "take a second look".

He did not go as far as job the choosing early, as a small had speculated he might. Instead he joked that there were 76 campaigning days left until the internal elections, as far as he could go to confirming that polling day would be May 6.

But it was transparent that choosing hostilities had rigourously begun. In a clever conflict on Mr Cameron, Mr Brown indicted the Tory personality of stealing policies that would have "real family groups suffer".

He told his assembly in Coventry: "Government is not a game. When you flay afar the veneer and essentially see at what their policies mean, what you see is not the new economics of the future, it"s the same old Conservative economics of the 1980s.

"How can they be the celebration of change, when they haven"t even altered themselves?"

He pounded Mr Cameron for putting out improper statements on the rate of teenage conceiving physically and "made up figures" on crime.

The new posters featuring the Conservative leader"s airbrushed face were "the biggest income Labour never spent", he said.

He said: "Can they unequivocally contend they assimilate the needs of mainstream Britain when they think ... that Manchester is similar to The Wire?

"When they state that 54%, some-more than half the girls in Birmingham and Liverpool are profound by the time they"re 18?" The genuine figure was 5.4%.

"Can they explain they know the aspirations of mainstream Britain when they so obviously assimilate so small of how we live? If you dismay people with finished up total on crime, genuine family groups unequivocally suffer.

"And if you speak Britain down in the center of a retrogression and criticise confidence, genuine family groups unequivocally suffer."

The Conservatives reacted in a huff to the comments. Mr Cameron released an evident come-back on YouTube. He pronounced Mr Brown"s claims that his celebration was for the most not the couple of was "simply untrue".

"I think that any one who has lived in this nation for the last thirteen years knows that is untrue," the Tory personality said.

"It is the most who are victims of Labour"s retrogression the deepest given the Second World War.

"It"s the most who have seen their taxes blown on purposeless programmes and initiatives.

"It"s the most who"ll be profitable behind Labour"s debts for years to come. It"s the most who can"t for the hold up of them find a good propagandize place for their children.

"After thirteen years of Labour order the nation though still good is badly, really bad damaged."

Mr Brown, who was celebrating his 59th birthday, certified in his debate that he had finished mistakes. "I know that Labour hasn"t finished all right. And I know, really, I know, that I"m not perfect."

Later he was put on the mark in a Channel 4 News talk over allegations that he was assertive towards staff.

"If I get angry, I get indignant with myself. I throw the newspapers on the building or something similar to that, but greatfully … I have never strike anybody in my life.

"Let me only contend positively clearly, so that there is no disagreement about that, I have never, never strike anybody in my life."

Labour officials pronounced they would try to feat squeezing perspective polls and daub in to what the celebration believes is "submerged optimism" between the electorate.

Ministers have been systematic to fan out opposite the nation in what Mr Brown pronounced would be a "street by street" quarrel for victory.

When is a new Labour aphorism an old New Labour slogan?

That was the subject yesterday as "A Future Fair For All" was denounced as Mr Browns glossy new mantra for the entrance choosing campaign.

It was, in fact, the pretension of a discussion request denounced by Tony Blair in 2003, that discussed how to reconnect with Britain and talked, between alternative things, about the benefits of fasten the euro.

Mr Brown and Mr Blair even acted together at a press discussion to launch it.

If that wasnt treacherous enough, most people yesterday pronounced they couldnt assimilate what on earth it meant. There were spiteful jokes on the internet that it was earnest citizens a free fun fair...