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Media attacks on Miliband ‘small’ compared to Corbyn

MEDIA demonisation of Ed Miliband will “pale into insignificance” compared to attacks on Jeremy Corbyn, an ally of Labour’s new leader has warned.

Mr Corbyn appealed at the weekend for an end to the “appalling abuse” that his family was subjected to during the leadership campaign.

But Norwich South MP Clive Lewis, a former BBC journalist, said he expected things to get worse.

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