The Tories need to ‘weaponise’ Ed Miliband’s incompetence

Ed Miliband was on Andrew Marr’s sofa this morning, drawing 2015 battle lines. It all looked very encouraging – if you are a conservative, that is.

Miliband started discussing the Paris attacks, saying he wants to give the security services what is necessary — but as MI5’s director-general said on Thursday evening, that means more than money. It means the powers to put a wire on the bad guys, intercept emails and do so quickly. Does Miliband agree that these capabilities are also needed?

On the deficit, he tried to play the fiscal hawk…

“Most Labour leaders go into elections saying we’re going to raise spending. “I’ve got great news”, they say, “we’re going to raise spending in every area.” I’m a Labour leader who’s going into an election saying, outside a small number of protected areas, departmental spending will be falling year on year until we balance the budget.”