The dismal truth is that nobody in the Labour leader’s office any longer expects him to be any good.
The average member of Miliband’s team has spent just four and a half years working in the private sector. A quarter have no private sector experience at all.
The failure of Yvette Cooper and Tristram Hunt in the Commons yesterday was a symptom of a bigger Opposition problem.
Both sides in this campaign are pandering to our least rational, most visceral emotions.