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HEAVEN help us. It seems a bunch of jam-making elderly women from middle England are now being used as a barometer of public opinion.

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If the Women's Institute had applauded the Prime Minister's speech then I would have known he had lost touch.

The Tories might be out of government, but the "forces of Conservatism" are obviously still with us.

Tony Blair was certainly guilty of political misjudgment by deciding to make a keynote speech to an organisation largely made up of Tory ladies. Well, they would slow hand clap the leader of the Labour party, wouldn't they?

How many of them will benefit from measures to help lone parents, the long-term unemployed or the low paid? They are much more interested in countryside issues, Oxford educations and VAT on knitting patterns.

If there is a lesson for Blair from his handbagging by the WI it is not to examine what he said to offend them but why he was bothering to woo them at all.

Cheap christian audigier The Premier fears that without "Middle England" votes he won't have a job. It's true he has extended Labour's appeal to sections of society and parts of the country it could never have dreamed of attracting in the past. But he should realise that if he loses Labour's traditional vote, he'll also be out of No 10.

Every time he tries to cosy up to the middle classes he loses more working-class votes.

Mr Blair may have been angry with his Chancellor for sparking a class row over Oxford elitism. But the fall-out from that was nothing like the backlash he provoked himself this week.

This week Scotland's Enterprise Minister Henry McLeish joined the crusade against privilege by attacking the record of some Scottish universities.

So in speaking out, Gordon Brown and Henry McLeish will have reassured thousands of Scots that they are on their side.

They have defended the rights of everyone to a fair chance in life regardless of their family background.

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It is difficult to see how that could cause offence to anyone other than Scotland's tiny elite - and they vote Tory anyway.

How many people really believe working classes should be swept under the threadbare carpet of grim housing schemes while a privately- educated circle runs the country?

This week will be seen as a defining one for the New Labour project. The party can no longer claim the universal appeal it had in the '97 landslide election.

It is time to redefine its aims and stop the conflicting signals.

If Blair and Brown can't agree on where to position the party, how can voters expect to feel the government has direction?

Labour needs to stop worrying about who it's appealing to and start doing things which attract appeal. That means selling its achievements aggressively.

Meanwhile, Tony Blair should be urgently reflecting on the most telling lesson of this week - that he would win more votes by attacking the forces of conservatism than trying to win them over.

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