What kind of country do you want to live in? One where you don’t have to raid your savings to pay for your children’s university education? Or perhaps you’d like to live in a country where the care for your elderly parents was based on their needs. You might even be one of the thousands of Southern Rail passengers who only wants to get on a train, find a seat and arrive on time.

If you’re one of those people, or the countless others who have been let down in the last six years by the devastation of our public services, then let me tell you why the Labour Party is the party for you.

Over the last six years you’ve been deceived on a scale not seen since Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme. Time and again you’ve been told that to build a strong economy we had to tighten our belts and cut public funding. Today we have the utterly self-defeating reality of rapidly declining public services while our debt is going up.

Take the NHS: irrespective of where you live, it is likely that your local hospital is in debt – 80 per cent of hospitals are. Just a few weeks ago the Government announced that hospital debt in England was a staggering £2.45 billion. Let’s put that into context, when the Conservatives came to power the NHS was breaking even. Knowing the cost of the Government’s cuts is only half the equation, the price you and me are paying is far higher.