Dan Hodges, Ed Miliband and a touch of class warfare

Telegraph blogger goes ballistic over Labour’s new party political spoof. Does he have a point?

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HAS the Daily Telegraph political blogger Dan Hodges – former Labour Party staffer, uber-Blairite and son of the film actress Glenda Jackson – gone bonkers or suffered a major sense-of-humour failure? Or has he put his finger on a concern troubling some Labour supporters – that, whatever the opinion polls might suggest, Ed Miliband is not going to win the 2015 general election?

In his latest Telegraph column, Hodges takes aim at a new Labour party political broadcast uploaded on YouTube this week. Hodges doesn’t just hate it – he thinks it is proof that by playing the class card, Labour is throwing away the chance of victory next May.

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Nigel Horne is Comment Editor of The Week.co.uk. He was formerly Editor of the website until September 2013. He previously held executive roles at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.