Labour rival Ed Balls hits out at Miliband family
ED Balls last night launched an astonishing public attack on Labour leadership rivals, David and Ed Miliband.
The former Schools Secretary mocked the pair, sons of Marxist intellectual Ralph Miliband, for their upbringing in Hampstead.
“I didn’t sit with senior politicians when I was eight and nine at north London parties but, you know, that’s a difference for me.
“I’m not sure whether it’s a strength or a weakness,” he said drawing a contrast with his own “provincial” childhood in Norwich and Nottingham.
Labour insiders now fear the trio are returning to the spiteful feuding of the Blair- Brown years, recounted in Lord Mandelson’s memoirs.
Yesterday, Ed Miliband pleaded for Labour to leave the “psychodramas” of the Brown-Blair era behind.
He added: “If any of us thinks we lost the election because of personalities, they are wrong.
“People lost a sense of who we are and what we believe.”
