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Miliband calls for post-war spirit to assist recovery

BRITAIN will need to show the same spirit of national mission and determination as people demonstrated at the end of the Second World War if it is to rebuild itself and avoid a decade-long slump, Ed Miliband will say today.

At a public question-and-answer session on the eve of Labour's conference in Manchester, the UK party leader will insist after two-and-a-half years of a failed Coalition Government people are facing a crisis in living standards, which is "profound, prolonged and painful".

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