Poll: Is the Labour Party still in touch with its roots?
After a Labour MP claimed Ed Miliband is seen as "more of a toff than David Cameron" by voters, do you think the Labour Party has lost sight of its roots?
Simon Danczuk claimed Labour had been hijacked by a "liberal elite" from London which had refused to tackle issues including immigration, and the party's poll ratings showed "we're getting something wrong".
The Rochdale MP said Mr Miliband will "cost me votes" on May 7 because of his unpopularity with the electorate, claiming voters would prefer to go for a pint with the Prime Minister than the Labour leader.
Mr Danczuk told the New Statesman: "Any Labour politician that says to you they knock on a door and Ed Miliband is popular are telling lies. It's just not true.
"I spend four hours knocking on doors on a Sunday - they (constituents) say things like, 'you're doing an all right job as MP but I don't want Ed Miliband as Prime Minister, so I won't vote for you'. So it'll cost me votes.
"You get it on the doorstep. If we're having a straight conversation about this, he (Mr Miliband) has an image of being more of a toff than David Cameron. That's how the public see it.
"And what they mean by that is that he's seen as more aloof. They'd prefer to go for a pint with David Cameron than they would with Ed Miliband, that's the reality of it."
