Get it, or it will get you. Ed Miliband was elected leader of Britain’s opposition party, Labour, by the tiniest of margins. “I get it”, he told his party conference last week. But our Bagehot columnist found the young pretender dangerously out of step with austerity Britain. 

Get it, or it will get you. Ed Miliband was elected leader of Britain’s opposition party, Labour, by the tiniest of margins. “I get it”, he told his party conference last week. But our Bagehot columnist found the young pretender dangerously out of step with austerity Britain.