article_snippet: But business'
  Ed Miliband said the open letter was not a surprise and only showed that the Tories were on the side of 'a few big firms and individuals at the top'.
article_snippet: David Cameron, however, insisted the intervention was 'unprecedented' and claimed the intervention sent a 'very powerful message'.
article_snippet: However, Mr Miliband said the open letter only served to expose the choice at the election.
article_snippet: Mr Miliband said: 'Businesses have come out today to say Businesses want lower business taxes and, you know, that doesn't surprise me. '
article_snippet: But Mr Cameron, touring Marston's brewery in the Wolverhampton today, said the open letter was 'very powerful'.
article_snippet: Mr Cameron and George Osborne visited Marston's Brewery in Wolverhampton today on the second full day of the general election campaign .
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said the open letter was 'very powerful' while the Chancellor claimed it was 'unprecedented' Tory officials said the number of signatories to the open letter (above) made the number of signatories to the open letter (above) 'unprecedented' in the history of British general elections .
article_snippet: Mr Cameron said: 'Today the number of signatories to the open letter (above) is an unprecedented intervention by some of the business leaders in the best-known business, large and small, in the country saying the Conservative long-term plan is working, generating jobs. '
article_snippet: Deputy PM Nick Clegg said the open letter (above) was a tribute to the work of the Coalition government, and claimed an outright Tory win would ‘pose a very real threat’ to Britain’s stability.
article_snippet: Deputy PM Nick Clegg said yesterday:
article_snippet: I read the open letter (above) carefully, the open letter (above) talks about what the Coalition government has done, and I think the signatories to the open letter (above) are completely right in saying that about the last thing that the country needs, now that we’re emerging from this long shadow of the economic crash in 2008, is a great lurch in one direction or another.'
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  Ed Miliband said it only showed the PM backed Ed Miliband rich friends in the City .
  