General Election 2015: Ed Miliband brands David Cameron ‘a risk’ to the country

The Labour leader said the coalition had overseen a squeeze on family budgets, falling wages and 'food banks spreading across our land'

Ed Miliband said the Tories are a danger to family finances (Reuters)

Ed Miliband has focused on five years of falling living standards at a final election rally in London.

Acknowledging that this is the “tightest general election in a generation” that could come down to “a few hundred votes in a few dozen seats”, the Labour leader said the coalition had overseen a squeeze on family budgets, falling wages and “food banks spreading across our land”.

Branding David Cameron “a risk” to the country, he said: “For [Mr Cameron], this election is all about him. For me, it is about the working people of this country.”

With the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats pointing to the economic recovery in their quest for votes, Mr Miliband sought to undermine their case. He said the Tories are “a clear and present danger to family finances”, claiming that Mr Cameron has failed to dismiss claims that his planned cuts would put child benefit at risk.

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Mr Miliband also accused the Tories of making “desperate attacks” on him, such as Iain Duncan Smith’s assertion that Mr Miliband hates marriage.

The actor Jason Isaacs hosted the event and joked: “We have five days to go until David Cameron will be packing his bags. And asking Nick Clegg to carry them to his car.” Other endorsements included a video from snooker legend Ronnie O’Sullivan and appearances from ex-EastEnders actress Michelle Collins, Gavin & Stacey’s Mathew Horne and comedian Paul O’Grady.

In an article for The Independent on Sunday today, Mr Miliband promises that Labour would ensure the economic recovery “gets out of the City of London and reaches the front door of families across Britain”. He accuses the Tories of an “extraordinary effort ... to distract attention from five years of failure” by suggesting that Labour would do a deal with the SNP. Across the road from yesterday’s rally at the Royal Horticultural Society, Conservative activists held signs warning of the dangers of a Labour-SNP pact.

Labour produced analysis claiming that a Tory-led government would lead to £1.5bn being taken out of higher education.