The five-second pause was as telling as the answer itself. I had asked a senior Labour politician yesterday whether he could imagine Ed Miliband as Prime Minister. After a silence that was agonising for us both, he conceded: "It's a struggle." He is not alone – it's a struggle for voters too. A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times finds that two-thirds of people think Miliband isn't providing an effective opposition to David Cameron and 41 per cent of his own supporters think the party made a mistake in choosing him.
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