Claims about Miliband's 'Labour aristocracy' uprbringing overlook story of the benefactor who put a roof over his head
• The Daily Mail did its efficient best to demolish Miliband's claim to have attended a normal London comp, claiming with only some exaggeration that he is the product of "the Labour aristocracy" whose future stars and family friends were far removed from harsh working-class life. One detail the Mail overlooked is riveting. Miliband's clever-but-poor refugee parents were befriended by Ruth Dalton, widow of a Labour chancellor (1945-47) and when she died she left them enough (£5,000) to buy a nice house in Primrose Hill. She did the same for dashing young economist, John Vaizey. His son, another Ed, is now a Tory minister.
• Labour claims that about 11,000 people have been accredited to its 2012 conference, about the same as last year, though it does not provide a breakdown between political and commercial attendees. But...
• The Daily Mail did its efficient best to demolish Miliband's claim to have attended a normal London comp, claiming with only some exaggeration that he is the product of "the Labour aristocracy" whose future stars and family friends were far removed from harsh working-class life. One detail the Mail overlooked is riveting. Miliband's clever-but-poor refugee parents were befriended by Ruth Dalton, widow of a Labour chancellor (1945-47) and when she died she left them enough (£5,000) to buy a nice house in Primrose Hill. She did the same for dashing young economist, John Vaizey. His son, another Ed, is now a Tory minister.
• Labour claims that about 11,000 people have been accredited to its 2012 conference, about the same as last year, though it does not provide a breakdown between political and commercial attendees. But...
- 10/3/2012
- by Michael White
- The Guardian - Film News
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