It sounds like Team Ed have decided to embrace Ed Miliband’s supposed likeness to Wallace (of “and Gromit fame), with one of his most senior aides Tom Baldwin telling the Times:
“What’s wrong with Wallace? He’s a man of principle, who achieves what he wants to do, and he prevails in the end because he’s honourable, decent, a great British hero.”
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