I’m not totally sure where they keep Ed Miliband in between his Commons appearances. Perhaps some sort of deep freeze for the terminally media-unsavvy, in between Lammy and Lucy Powell. True, he is allowed to do the odd cringe-inducing publicity video, like the time he filmed his atonal strumming of a ukulele in front of a wind turbine. Presumably Sir Keir releases him from the grip of his iron trotters for these occasional acts of self-humiliation pour encourager les autres.
Yet here he was today in parliament – an increasingly rare example of a cabinet minister actually coming to the Commons to announce a major policy. What’s more, this was something even rarer – some good news from the government: nuclear power is back on again after 30 years of woeful inaction from all the main parties.
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