You mean the Labour party whose policies were to incrase the minimum wage, cut university fees, repeal the privatisation of the NHS and cap private profits from it etc etc. Yes I do think they are in touch.
I've already spelled it out above, the Tories are very good at painnting theseves as the party of the omm0n man but it doesn't take much effort to look at the information of who benefits from their policies. The Tax theshold increases even benefit those on higher incomes than lower, the cuts in progressive taxation (income, capital gains and corporation) are balanced with inceases to regressive taxes such as VAT of which the poor pay proportionaly more of their income in.
AS previously stated many of their ations since being reelected are to suit a small elite of very wealthy people and big business. Whilst many of the promises that they made about not cutting in work benefits have been renged on ( and only didn't occur because they were forced to) others such as their ring fencing of money for education have been proved to be white lies (because its ring fenced but static it doesnt change in real terms) whilst still others like the free childcare have been put on the back burner. All at the same time when things that had no mandate that serve the corporate interest such as doctors contracts and acadmiess.
You can throw around terms like "regressive left" all you like but as I previously said above its a very clever tactic used by the right to appeal to the everyman, whilst at the same time implementing policies which are actually adverse for him.
Lets look at who keeps putting this "Labour out of touch" agenda up, the millionaire priv ately educated tory front bench, Etonian Boris Johnson, Tax avoiding billionaires the Barclays , non dom Rothmere etc. Trump and Bush have used it very well in the states. But its bollocks, sorry.
Oh and Yes I have been outside the North Cicular, I'm from a mining/steel town in County Durham and my mother is from Glasgow. But tell you what, I've never walked around Easterhouses like IDS and shown "compassion" and then contrived to kick the poor where it hurts. How patronising for you to ask me that question.