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Status anxiety

Miliband's fight with the Mail is cold political calculation

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

I’m writing this from the Conservative party conference in Manchester, but it’s Ed Miliband I want to discuss. In particular, his objection to Saturday’s article in the Daily Mail about his father Ralph.

I felt a smidgen of sympathy for Ed when I saw the headline (‘The Man Who Hated Britain’) because a similar piece could be written about my father.

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