Labour 'aims to boost middle class'

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Shadow cabinet member Chuka Umunna has said he "doesn't have a problem with people making a lot of money" and suggested that Labour wants to increase the size of the middle class and "help people make their first million".

His comments, in The House magazine, represent an effort to shake off accusations that Labour is an "anti-rich" party, and will inevitably revive memories of former minister Lord Mandelson's Blair-era remark that he was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes".