Ed Miliband promised to stand up for consumers against the big six energy companies with a pledge to freeze gas and electricity prices for the 20 months following the next election. Labour says the move would save the average household £120 and forms a major part of the party's vow to help with what it calls a "cost of living crisis".
In a speech delivered without notes, Miliband also pledged to support voting rights for 16- and 17-year-olds and build 200,000 new homes.
Joining Hugh Muir this week to discuss it all are the Guardian's columnist Michael White; the Observer's economics editor Heather Stewart and the editor of Labour List Mark Ferguson.
Also this week: we pick through the revelations in Damian McBride's book on his time at the heart of Gordon Brown's communications team.
And we look ahead to David Cameron's challenge at his party's conference in Manchester next week.
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