Ed Miliband has said Labour needs new ideas if it is to regain power Ed Miliband is to take part in what Labour claim is the biggest public consultation on policy attempted by a British political party.
The Labour leader will face questions on the party's future direction from an audience of 2,000 in Nottingham.
It is the next stage in a wide-ranging policy review which Mr Miliband says is needed after the 2010 election defeat.
He is expected to say the coalition is sowing divisions in society by pitting different groups against each other.
Mr Miliband is seeking public input into the party's policy review - expected to be completed next year and to shape their platform for the next general election due in 2015.
Labour is billing Friday's event - which it says will be attended by local residents rather than Labour Party activists - as the largest "listening exercise" ever undertaken by a British political party.
In his speech, which will proceed a Q&A session, Mr Miliband is likely to argue that the Budget does not go nearly far enough in helping people squeezed by rising living costs.
The government is failing to unify the country in the face of its economic difficulties, he is expected to argue.
BBC Political Correspondent Ross Hawkins said Mr Miliband was expected to accuse the coalition of setting private against public sectors and those on middle incomes against the very well off in its approach to cutting the deficit.
He is following in the footsteps of previous opposition leaders, including David Cameron, who have embarked upon root-and-branch reviews of policy after election defeats and sought to show their parties are open to new ideas.
But the Conservatives have sought to ridicule Labour's listening exercise, with Mr Cameron mocking the Labour leader for saying the party had a "blank sheet of paper" on the economy, education, health and other important issues.
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