“Look, I’m not going to start criticising Ed Miliband. I won’t say a word against him. In fact, I admire him. Say what you like about his screamingly obvious failings both as a politician and as a man, but the fact remains that he did everything he could to overcome his absolutely monumental personal shortcomings, and for that I salute him. And anyway, it’s hardly his fault he looks and talks like that. It’s probably genetic or something, and it’s unkind to draw attention to it.