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Matthew Parris

Ed Miliband’s problem isn’t his image. It’s us

Boris Johnson could eat a bacon sandwich tomorrow – and turn it to his advantage

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

That bacon bap earlier this month was not the cause of Ed Miliband’s unpopularity. Ed Miliband’s unpopularity was the cause of the bacon bap. Scant comfort this will give the Labour leader and his fabled ‘advisers’, but they can stop worrying about food-related photographic gaffes because once the world is out to get you, the world will get you, and if they don’t get you one way they’ll get you another.

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