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Ed Miliband has recently come under fire for having no clear course of action planned for the labour party’s economic policy. Defending himself, Miliband asserted, ‘I have a very clear plan and I have set out very clear themes’. Miliband went on to add, ‘You discover things about yourself in this job, which is that I am someone of real steel and grit, which is why I stood for the job in the first place when many people said I should not.’

Jim Murphy, shadow defence secretary, has claimed that Labour must show “credibility” through explaining where it plans to make budget cuts which as yet it has not done. Yet Mr. Miliband asserted that the shadow chancellor Ed Balls would have similarly executed the £5 billion military cuts. Miliband admitted that regaining public faith in Labour’s handling of the economy was “an incredibly important task.” Miliband also admitted that it is “not something that takes place in six months or a year. We – Ed and I – get this more than anyone, that this is an important task for labour’. With little time on his armbanduhren before the next elections, Miliband better get a move on!