Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone has taken up the ‘class war’ against the Tories in this week’s Tribune magazine.

In it he attacks David Cameron’s Conservative Party for waging a ‘class war’ against average voters.

Livingstone argues that the Tories have ‘reverted to type’, and that ‘those on average incomes, the least well off, the unemployed, teachers, health workers and others must suffer from a savage attack on public spending’. Livingstone also claims that ‘a meaningful fight against climate change would be abandoned’.

‘These are open class-war policies, with a vengeance’.

But he also argues that just focusing on lower income voters cannot build Labour a winning electoral coalition.

Labour “can only win when it has the support of both those on ‘middle incomes’ and the less advantaged,” he says.

He also calls for Labour to engage in dialogue with those who “support a progressive agenda but who, for various reasons, are not natural Labour supporters”.

Ken Livingstone will be the main speaker at next week’s Progressive London event.

More from the Tribune interview here.

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