Even the po-faced Associated Press (video above) couldn’t but describe as ‘toe-curling’ Ed Miliband’s encounter with a homeless hijabi. Pundits agree that Ed appeared ‘terrified’ of the beggar in Manchester.
Mr S was there, however – on unrelated business, of course – and can confirm that the opposition leader really did only have 2p in his pocket at the time. (Why on earth would he carry more?)
Your correspondent was otherwise engaged, however (in discussion with my equine consultant) in the moment this photo was snapped:
Manchester, 31 October 2014 (Photo: Nigel Roddis/Getty)
What could have been on his mind? Or that of shadow transport secretery Mary Creagh, for that matter, as they headed into the Manchester town hall?
The new Scottish Labour polls made for a grim Halloween around Camp Miliband. One bedraggled Labour aid, on the phone from a supposed party, trembled that she’d ‘begun seeing Alex Salmond’s face in every Halloween jack’o’lantern.’
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