Ed Miliband’s main aim for this year’s Labour conference is to show people what makes him ‘tick’, bringing across his personality to voters. He was rather wooden when he appeared on the Andrew Marr Show this morning, and made it clear that this getting-to-know-you conference won’t be about a personality change, but emphasising his own true character traits.
He was keen to suggest that he possesses nerves of steel in standing up to the trade unions, who the Sunday Times reports are trying to flush out remaining bastions of support for Tony Blair within Labour. He said:
‘You can’t say at one and the same time that Len McCluskey is saying ‘you’re wrong on pay restraint’ and then say that we’re giving in to him and he is pulling our strings.’
Incidentally, Progress, the group most despised by the trade unions, holds a rally in Manchester tonight.
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