Prepare for the joke prime minister

Ed Miliband may be a "joke opposition leader", but there is every chance he will become a "joke prime minister".

"There's poison in the Shadow Cabinet," says Isabel Hardman in The Spectator's Coffee House blog.

Some shadow ministers are briefing that their leader, Ed Miliband, is "weird" and that the Labour party may lose the next general election. These shadow ministers "seem more interested in what happens after the 2015 election than in their party's chances in that election". Once politicians get into this mindset, talk of election defeat can become "a self-fulfilling prophecy".

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