A giant stone inscription bearing the Labour Party's six key pledges will be installed outside Number 10 if Ed Miliband becomes prime minister after Thursday's general election.
The Labour leader made the announcement this morning, claiming his pledges had been set in stone because "they won't be abandoned" after polling day.
He said: "Our six pledges form the basis of our plan for working people.
"These six pledges are now carved in stone - they're carved in stone because they won't be abandoned after the general election.
"I want the British people to remember these pledges, to remind us of this pledges, to insist on these pledges, because I want the British people to be in no doubt we will deliver them.
"We will restore faith in politics by delivering what we promised at this general election."
He said the 8ft-high stone would be placed in the Rose Garden at Downing Street.
But the move immediately came in for criticism, with some likening it to something from political satire The Thick of It and others comparing Miliband to Moses.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ed Miliband builds a policy cenotaph. And you wonder why we stopped doing The Thick Of It. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=9&id=222025&p=http://t.co/hknBAKiJtP" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-53846-http://t.co/hknBAKiJtP" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/hknBAKiJtP</a>— Simon Blackwell (@simonblackwell) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/simonblackwell/status/594789643759001600" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-53846-https://twitter.com/simonblackwell/status/594789643759001600" data-vars-event-id="c23">May 3, 2015</a>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">That Ed Miliband stone slab getting lots of twitter real...More than most I've tweeted this Elex-most not positive <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=9&id=222025&p=http://t.co/tPwluK7Yt2" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-53846-http://t.co/tPwluK7Yt2" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/tPwluK7Yt2</a>— lucy manning (@lucymanning) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/lucymanning/status/594793987925487616" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-53846-https://twitter.com/lucymanning/status/594793987925487616" data-vars-event-id="c23">May 3, 2015</a>
Tory party chairman Grant Shapps told MailOnline: "Hubris was once defined as measuring up the curtains for No 10 before the public have even voted, but now Ed Miliband has gone one further by commissioning his very own limestone slab of commandments for the No10 garden.
"This isn't just measuring the curtains, this is something on a Biblical scale. It reminds me of the 10 Commandments."
