Where are Ed Miliband’s editors? If twenty minutes had been lopped off that speech, then
it might have been quite a decent little number. As it was, it dwelt too long on the past at the beginning; it hit all of its high notes in the middle; and sagged again during an protracted
conclusion. Maybe if David Miliband doesn’t stand for the shadow cabinet, he might be persuaded to stick around and at least fine-tune his brother’s speeches.
As for what we learnt about the MiliE leadership, most of it was presentational. The phrase “new generation” popped up with machine gun regularity, as did words like “optimism” and “change”. This was all about setting himself apart from New Labour – but not too much. Blair and Brown were praised at monotonous length, but then he’d talk about how the party had lost touch with the public.
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