LABOUR will try to win over Wales's "anti-Tory majority’’ between now and polling day with face-to-face contact between politicians and voters, Welsh Secretary Peter Hain said today.

Summing up Labour's strategy for the final 10 days of the election campaign, he said: "Stepping up voter contact. All of us are really pounding the streets.

"It's based on voter contact, door-to-door work and meeting voters outside supermarkets, anywhere there are large numbers of voters.

"It's very apparent that you can win people back to Labour by individual voter contact.’’ His comments follow reports that Gordon Brown had torn up his election strategy to engage non-Labour supporters.

Speaking to journalists in Cardiff, Mr Hain said most people in Wales opposed the Conservatives "and we will be increasingly appealing to that anti-Tory majority to assert itself’’.

"What I fear, and what I think the people of Wales fear, is letting the Tories in through the back door.’’ He added: "I think the turnout of Labour voters hopefully will be a lot larger then it has been in 2005 and even 2001.’’ He sought to highlight Labour's pledge to increase the national minimum wage in line with average earnings and attacked what he said were the Conservatives' plans for public spending cuts.

He added that Plaid Cymru was in danger of "leaving their backdoor open’’ in the west Wales seats of Llanelli and Carmarthen East by pouring all its resources into Ceredigion, which the nationalists are trying to retake from the Liberal Democrats.