Something a bit dainty about the Miliband technique

David Miliband was always expected to lay out his creed somehow – the surprise is that he has done so now. Here’s my take.

Straw’s move last week, with his “calm down, dear” routine, where he persuaded Labour that he was in charge, was intended to show it was him, not Miliband, that worried MPs (and, by the by, Cabinet members) were coming to for help. Miliband is left looking a bit weak – like the sort of man who goes to the pub and orders half a lager (which he does) while Straw is hinting he’d take on Brown. The News of the World headline writers put down “Alpha Male v Half a Lager” on my column last Sunday, which aptly summed up the Straw v Miliband race as I saw it.

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