Justine Miliband talks about meeting Ed

Justine Miliband gave an interview to the Daily Mirror in which she talks in detail about meeting Ed Miliband for the first time. She fancied him straight away, she says, but it seems she thought he was originally a bit of a bore.

She told the Mirror:

“I first met Ed when I went to a friend’s house for dinner,” she says.

“I was interested in him, I thought he was good looking and clever and seemed to be unattached. But we just went down a conversational cul-de-sac.

“Apparently we had nothing in common. He wanted to talk about economics – one of my least favourite subjects.

“He didn’t know my friend Adrian. None of our conversations went anywhere.

“Then I found out he was secretly going out with the woman who had invited us for dinner. I was furious.

“I bumped into him a couple of times after that, but we didn’t start seeing each other for at least a year.”

The next time they met, Ed and Justine found they did have shared interests.

Ed was about to be made Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Justine had just written a book on the subject.

They also shared a similar sense of humour.

Journalist John Rentoul has a theory of who may have been hosting said dinner party.

Could the secrecy have been because he was a Treasury special adviser & @MyStephanomics was BBC economics journalist?

— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) April 9, 2015