Ed Miliband: Internships are rigged

Labour leader Ed Miliband has told an audience of young people in Lincoln, he will keep his promise on cutting tuition fees. In a direct dig at Nick Clegg he said that the u-turn on the issue by the Lib Dems ” didn’t just damage Nick Clegg, it damaged everyone in politics.”

He also pledged to ban unpaid work placements that last more than four weeks, saying it is “time to end the system that is rigged in favour of the wealthier”.

One reporter asked Mr Miliband about the “stage-managed b*******” of his campaign, to which the Labour leader replied: “I don’t think you count as stage-managed.”