Miliband: I won’t share a stage with Clegg

Ed Miliband has been on Sky, talking about the alternative vote and Nick Clegg. The normally consensual Miliband was in strident mood. He said:

‘I want to win the AV referendum because I think it is important to reform our politics and I think it will make for a more accountable democracy and one where more votes count. The problem is Nick Clegg is the last thing we need to win this referendum.’

Earlier this morning, Miliband also urged Clegg to ‘lie low for a bit’, after the latter’s office allegedly derailed a joint event on AV between Miliband and Charlie Kennedy.

Miliband may be dabbling in the Leader of the Opposition’s stock-in-trade of curt throwaway lines, but this could signify a policy shift. As Pete noted at the weekend, Ed Balls’ description of the deputy prime minister as a ‘desperate, shrill and discredited politician’ was at odds with Miliband’s New