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Mind your language

What kind of life-form boasts that it can ‘speak human’?

We’re not sure, but the Labour party is having trouble finding one to lead it

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

The next Labour leader will have to be able to speak human, said a piece in the Observer. This, it argued, is because Ed Miliband was taunted for always speaking like a policy wonk.

What short memories members of the commentariat have. In 2010 Ed Miliband was being praised by supporters on the grounds that he did ‘speak human’, unlike his technocratic brother.

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