Peter Hoskin

Have the Milibands got Hollande fever?

We’ve grown so used to regarding Ed and David Miliband as mutual nemeses that it’s strange to see them operating as a tag team today. The younger brother has delivered a fiery attack on the ‘unfairness and economic failure’ of the coalition, while the elder brother has an article in the Mirror arguing that the government is ‘Wrong about how to grow the economy in the modern world’. There’s also another article by the latter in the Times (£), just in case you haven’t had your fill of MiliCommentary.

Much of what they say is unsurprising, but some things do stand out from their twin attacks nonetheless. The first is their insistence that the coalition isn’t just incompetent, but also ‘wrong’. As MiliD puts it himself, ‘The key charge is not that the Government are incompetent.

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