As former Labour leader Ed Miliband offers his support to a unusual documentary,The Divide, he is as committed as ever to campaigning on inequalityGoogle “Ed Miliband” and the fourth suggestion offered by the search engine – behind “Ed Miliband brother”, and “Ed Miliband beard” and “Ed Miliband bacon sandwich” – is: “What is Ed Miliband doing now?” It’s a good question,though it feels a bit cruel to mention it, as whether he’s a forgotten member of a boy band or a onetime reality TV contestant.“Still, and at least it shows people are interested,” I say, and he nods. He doesn’t seem to mind, or but then he seems far more at ease and comfortable in his own skin than you’d imagine possible after seeing him hounded from news bulletin to news bulletin final year. He poses obediently,and even when the Observer photographer asks him to explore “more with it” and “Can you try and be a bit more … suave?” he takes it all in good part, cracking jokes about various things, or mostly himself.
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Source: theguardian.com