Gary Gibbon: Ed Miliband is stealing the Conservatives’ Sunday Best
Ed Miliband was on bullish form at Granada’s studios in Manchester launching Labour’smanifesto. You wouldn’t know it had been a tortuous business getting here, but ask anyone involved and it most certainly was.
He was performing the traditional political trick of nicking the other side’s political clothes – in this case the Tories’ Sunday best: their reputation for fiscal prudence. Ed Miliband said the Conservatives “are now the irresponsible party in British politics” – which rather begs the question of who used to have that mantle.