Labour backbencher Jon Cruddas MP and Labour Parliamentary Candidate Chuka Umunna today launch a new website to “scrutinize the activities of Conservatives who already hold power”.

The Tory Stories website, running the tagline ‘Change We Can’t Believe In’, will focus on Cameron’s Conservatives outside of Westminster and try to highlight how Tory reality contrasts with Cameron rhetoric.

Jon Cruddas, MP for Dagenham, said:

In this campaign it is right to present the General Election as a choice between a Labour government that will act to support people through the recession and a Conservative administration ideologically opposed to intervention but, in so doing, it is crucial that we shine a light on what the Tories are already doing with power where they have it.

We must look beyond Westminster to the Town Halls and regions where Conservatives presently hold power, as opposed to simply revisiting the actions of Tories in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Chuka Umunna, candidate for Streatham, added:

Many of the new generations of voter are already living under Tories locally – their local Conservatives provide important pointers as to what a national Cameron government would do when they consider how to cast their vote.

The website will aim to act as a depository for researched and evidence based articles on what Conservatives in local and regional government are doing.

Both Cruddas and Umunna are members of the management committee of centre left political pressure group, Compass

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