The Ed Miliband Side-Step

Shamik Das and Will Straw at Left Foot Forward take exception to my suggesting that they are Ed Miliband supporters in a post yesterday (I have amended the last line). I am happy to put on record that Left Foot Forward has also been rather horrid to the younger Miliband, drawing attention to this ducking of an awkward question earlier this week:

Ed Miliband again side-stepped the question of why he hadn’t been more vocal in his opposition to unpopular Labour policies in an interview with Yoosk.com.

When asked “why did you a not make your opposition vocal, and join a cabinet which was pushing so many polices that you disagreed with?”, he replied only that he was “very proud of what we did as a government”.

Left Foot Forward is, of course, impartial in internal Labour Party matters.

Photograph via Ben Cooper and Joshua Peck

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