Time after time, voters in polls and in focus groups return the finding that they don’t especially trust any mainstream political party with their handling of the economy.

But in a forced choice, a small majority of voters think the Conservatives are ‘better at handling the economy’.

This of course depends on what your definition of the economy is. If it means the rich getting a lot richer, that is possibly true. And don’t forget Lord Mandelson was ‘intensely relaxed about that too’.

Gordon Brown and Ed Balls are adamant that they’ve won the argument on needling to pump money into the investment banking sector to avert a ‘Great Recession’.

However, David Cameron and Nick Clegg appear to have succeeded in spinning repetitively their yarn that it was Labour that ‘brought the economy to its knees’.

And it seems Ed Miliband is equally obsessed about ‘winning the argument’. Miliband is continuing with the line that the cost of living outstrips real wages, even though it is widely reported that this trend will reverse sometime this year.

But Miliband possibly is on surer ground with ‘zero hour contracts’, and the financial insecurity of some who have them. He would be on massively firmer ground if he were to attack the lack of access of justice through the closure of law centres through legislation introduced by this Government.

He would be on much firmer ground if here were to attack the changes in employment rights such as unfair dismissal.

There’s no doubt that the ‘cost of living crisis’ is important to many – with the well known #shockedface when many of us open our energy bills.

But he almost appears to mention the NHS as an after thought. Now is the time when Labour should produce a series of announcements on what it wants to do, aside from leaks on public health which look pretty deliberate in the Daily Mail.

Labour could campaign strongly to ensure that the English Law Commission’s proposals on the regulation of clinical professions see the light of day, with Jeremy Hunt having made this such a totemic issue.

Labour could hone in on the incredible waste in PFI loan repayments, and their subsequent effect on budgets regarding safe staffing. These have been identified by Margaret Hodge’s team in the Public Accounts Committee.

It could decide to wish to implement legislation which makes it a certainty there’ll be no hospital closures appearing from nowhere and any discussion of changes to health services will require a meaningful discussion with the local community first.

It is up to Labour to choose the narrative too. People desperately want Labour, and Ed Miliband, to take a lead on the NHS. As Carville said, “It’s the economy stupid….. but don’t forget about healthcare.”