Miliband’s promise to clamp down on payday loans is a good first step

While bloggers and columnists have focused on Ed Miliband’s call for a reintroduction of the 10p tax rate, scrapped by Gordon Brown, paid for through a mansion tax on £2m properties, it should be noted that the opposition leader signalled signs of hope on personal finance as well.

In his speech, he noted that as a start to building a One Nation economy Labour would: