Red Ed’s dead dad
The Daily Mail has done Ed Miliband a favour
LAST week our Bagehot column accused Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, of “a radical lurch to the right”. The slur was unintentional—we meant to say “left” but a gremlin intervened—unlike the one in the Daily Mail this week. A profile of Mr Miliband’s father in the right-wing tabloid described Miliband senior as “the man who hated Britain” on the basis of remarks the academic made about the nationalism of the English when he was 17 and his well-known hard-left socialism and criticism of the establishment. Given his influence on his son, this “should disturb anybody who loves Britain”, the newspaper opined.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Red Ed’s dead dad”
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