Patrick Smyth: Miliband should not revisit the past if he wants Labour to count in the future - Opinion: Tories still have work to do not to be seen as the party of the ‘toffs’

And, despite his efforts, David Cameron, who famously pledged as he took over in 2005 to “detoxify” his party’s brand, has not succeeded in shaking the “party of toffs and middle-aged, Middle-England” image – his party is still toxic in minority communities, has only one seat in Scotland, and just 20 of the 124 urban seats in the midlands and the north. A mountain to climb.

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