In amidst the endless navel-gazing about the Milibands – from the BBC’s montage package you’d assume a) David Milibad was a weedier version of Rocky and b) that he was now dead – there’s just been a howler from Jack Straw.

Poor old Jack had been wheeled out to say how much he thought David’s decision to take a step back from the front bench was the right one. Live on air straight after the clip of D-Mili’s announcement he came out with this gem that is deserving of Private Eye’s Colemanballs section:

“As you have seen from those pictures on television, he is a relieved man, and so is his wife, Louise.”

Hasn’t Mrs M had a tough enough week?

Tags: david Miliband, Labour Leadership, New Labour, Politics, Westminster

Categories: Politics, Westminster

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