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Will Labour boldly go with ‘Red Ed’?

 

David Cameron has dismissed the Labour leadership election as a “Star Trek convention” with policy wonks battling out to go where no spad has gone before. That caricature has some currency (see picture, left). But as he’ll know, a deeper choice faces Labour. David Miliband may be the geekier one – playing Spock to Ed’s Kirk.

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