What’s that I hear? The sound of a consensus cracking?
Since 4.50pm on Satuday 25 September 2010, commentators on the right and on the so-called “centre” of the political spectrum have queued up to dismiss Ed Miliband as a lightweight, a cipher, a left-wing loon, “Red Ed”, who would consign Labour to electoral oblivion in 2015 and beyond. They collectively mourned his brother David’s narrow defeat.
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