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Article: Labour retreat over Crewe 'Tory toff ' jibe; Class war: Labour supporters in top hat and tails mock the Tory candidate in Crewe last week.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2008
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Byline: Michael Lea
LABOUR is to scale down its 'class war' attacks on the Tories beforeThursday's crucial Crewe by-election - after polls showed the tactic isbackfiring.
The party's high command has been split by a high-risk strategy to mock theConservative candidate as a 'toff who lives in a mansion'.
Cabinet ministers tried desperately to rein in the negative campaigningyesterday as a poll suggested Labour's 7,078 majority would be overturned onThursday.
The ICM survey in the once-safe Labour seat of Crewe and Nantwich indicatedthat the Tories had doubled their lead to eight points in a week. Mr Cameron'sparty had 45 per cent to ...