The Labour leader is facing a deluge of criticism in the British press treatment that has been dished out to almost every predecessor from Clement Attlee to Neil Kinnock. With an election six months away, and the rightwing papers scenting blood, just how nasty could things get?
If Ed Miliband thought the Saturday headlines were inauspicious, then the Sunday front-page headlines were ghastly. Labour voters say Miliband unfit to be PM, trilled the Sunday Times. Shadow education minister plunges in the dagger, said the Mail on Sunday. Labour push to axe Miliband, alleged the Sun on Sunday.
Alongside the predictable pro-Tory stirrers were splashes in the Observer (Miliband in new crisis as senior MPs back leadership change) and the Independent on Sunday (Jewish donors drop toxic Miliband). Even the normally loyal Sunday Mirror carried a piece headlined Milibands got six weeks to shape up.
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