One of the political winners of the last quarter of this year has been Ed Miliband. He gave one of the best speeches of the conference season and then was promoted in Brown’s reshuffle to one of the sexiest portfolios in government. James Macintyre in his predictions for 2009 says:
One of the smartest commentators on the centre-left said something similar to me the other day citing Ed’s popularity across the party and the fact that the political energy is now on the more statist left where Ed has always been. His brother David, pretty anonymous since the banana incident, is rapidly becoming the other Miliband.“Ed Miliband will emerge as the up-and-coming politician of 2009 and come to be regarded as Brown’s natural successor.”
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