But Tories pointed out this is not coalition policy.
The head of Unite says backing the coalition policy will lead to "certain election defeat".
There was certainly no evidence in the byelection of support for coalition economic policy.
The reason why he's irrelevant isn't because of bad coalition policies.
And I say that as someone who broadly supports coalition policies.
He described the coalition economic policy as "reckless" and said the cuts were happening too fast.
No new community schools can be created under coalition policy .
They cannot talk about the effect of coalition policies on women, because Labour share many of them.
Fairly or not, many of the public think them too weak to be able to have a decisive influence on coalition policy.
That is the current coalition policy or had you not noticed?