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The rats have crawled out of the sewer
The revolting disloyalty of many Labour figures to Ed Miliband stems from their nostalgia for the right-wing days of Blair, warns MICHAEL MEACHER

THE Blairites never wanted Ed Miliband to win the leadership.

Since he unexpectedly did, they have never missed an opportunity to gossip about him from the sidelines. Some, like Dan Hodges — son of Glenda Jackson — regularly spit out their vitriol and bile against Miliband in the in the Tory press.  

Others more insidiously give unattributed briefings to the media which Blairite journalists, like Nicholas Watt in the Guardian at the weekend, shamefully repeat without naming the source.   

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