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Politics

The next election will break all the rules

In an era of coalitions and four-party politics — and with the left more united than the right — all bets are off

2 November 2013

9:00 AM

2 November 2013

9:00 AM

Ed Miliband’s aides used to scurry around the parliamentary estate, their shoulders hunched. A look in their eyes suggested that they feared their boss’s harshest critics were right. But times have changed. Now Team Ed marches with heads high. The success of his pledge to freeze energy prices has given them a warm glow.

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