Ed Miliband has been across the airwaves this morning, explaining that the values
outlined in his speech yesterday will inform Labour’s policy direction over the next four years – a statement that calls to mind a crude saying regarding Sherlock Holmes. He is doing
this because most commentators agree that his speech was incoherent. Here is a selection of the reaction in this morning:
The Times’ leading column (£):
‘Generally he did better with his attacks than with phrases that sought to describe his vision. His larger problem — that people have difficulty seeing him as prime minister — is unlikely to have been affected much by this performance.’
Matthew Norman in the Independent:
‘Three minutes and 45 seconds into Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday, my mind wandered off to a fantasy world in which some mischievous sprite had spiked his larynx-lubricating Evian with a truth serum.
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