‘Labour to replace one-term Tory govt.’

Labour party faced a serious blow when Respect’s George Galloway won a landslide victory in a parliamentary by-election, as the constituency has been a Labour stronghold since 1974.

However, Miliband claimed that it was Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservatives who were on the back foot as they were denounced for the Budget and for inciting needless panic buying over petrol shortages.

“I think it is going to be remembered for the end of the Cameron project,” he claimed.

“Thursday night was a very bad result but there is a big picture about where politics is and I think people will look back on the last few weeks and say that was when the Cameron project hit the buffers and this was when Labour had their chance.”

Following the reports that the government triggered a confrontation with the tanker drivers echoing Margaret Thatcher’s clash with the miners, Miliband stressed that the Tory-led government should come clean about its tackling of the crisis.

During the past few days, government was taking provocative steps to arouse unnecessary tension among the public over the fuel shortages, Labour leader said.

“Ministers knew all along that a strike could not possibly be less than seven days away even were it to be called – that is the law. Yet they panicked the nation all the way to the petrol pumps because they imagined it would boost them in the polls,” he added.

Earlier on Sunday, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper accused ministers of seeking to trigger a confrontation with the unions in a bid to recreate Thatcher’s clash with the miners in the 1984.

“They created this petrol crisis. What they did was they caused a run on the pumps for political reasons because they wanted a ‘Thatcher moment’,” she said.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls also condemned the coalition government, insisting it had been playing “political games” in recent days and deliberately incited petrol panic to distract attentions from anti-Tory headlines.

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