The EdStone finds a new home

The original EdStone may have been broken up and discarded soon after Ed Miliband’s 2015 defeat, but its memory lives on. In fact, the Conservatives have even managed to spin a tidy profit from it — auctioning replica versions to party donors.

So, last night at the Ivy Chelsea Garden’s champagne-fuelled summer party, Mr S was curious to stumble across an old friend. In the garden of the upmarket Chelsea eatery — owned by Richard Caring, the Tory donor — lies an EdStone:

Still, given that Theresa May has been accused of having a touch of the Miliband about her thanks to her energy price cap proposal, Red Ed may still have the last laugh…