Miliband set to step up attacks on Cameron Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is due to step up a gear in his battle against David Cameron on Saturday, accusing him of being a "tainted prime minister" who is steeped in the Murdoch scandal and unable to rescue the country from recession. In a speech to the party's national policy forum, Mr Miliband will ridicule the closeness Mr Cameron and the Murdochs revealed during the Leveson inquiry. "This is a prime minister who sent the texts, received the texts, even rode the horse," the Labour leader will say. And what we now know is we have a tainted prime minister. Tainted because he stands up for the wrong people. Tainted because he does not stand up to the rich and powerful. Tainted because he cannot be the change this country needs. Mr Miliband is expected to bolster his shadow chancellor's critique of the government's economic management. Yes, it's right to supply credit to our banks. But it doesn't change the fundamental problem," he will say. Austerity is not working in Britain with a double-dip recession.