September 30, 2012

Picturing Ed Miliband as Prime Minister

Andrew Rawnsley, The Guardian

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Call it the "close your eyes test". The challenge faces every leader of the opposition. Whether or not they pass is invariably crucial to their eventual success or failure. Can voters close their eyes and imagine this person standing on the threshold of Number 10 telling the country that Her Majesty has just invited them to form a government?

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