RM: Ed Miliband has always made a virtue of standing up to newspapers and their owners, such as Rupert Murdoch over phone hacking, and the Mail on Sunday over its attack on his father. It appears to have come at a cost, with knives out for him in most of the printed press. This is a sign that the Labour leader is uncowed by newspaper attacks and prepared to move against too much media ownership being in one person or company’s hands (read: Murdoch’s Sun, Times and Sky stable).

