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August 29, 2010

Jealousy Could Decide Labour Leader

Matthew d'Ancona, Daily Telegraph

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The central claim of Ed Miliband's leadership campaign has been the slogan: "Ed speaks human." We are invited to believe that the younger Miliband is a cross between Barack Obama and Diana, Princess of Wales: a gelatinous blob of empathy ready to overpower both party and nation with the sheer power of his charisma and all-round loveliness.

Of course, the slogan is missing two words that are never said out loud because they do not need to be. Only the most politically illiterate or tin-eared would fail to spot what is really being said: "Ed speaks human – unlike David." Every time the younger Miliband speaks of "my sense of empathy and my ability to reach out and understand people’s lives", he...

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