Lord Mandelson told Steve Richards…

“I’m absolutely mystified by the manifesto on which we fought because its creator and author, Ed Miliband, has distanced himself from it, criticised it sharply and created the impression it’s not the manifesto on which he would have fought the Election… a lowest common denominator manifesto, a crowd-pleasing Guardianista manifesto that completely passed by that vast swathe of the population who weren’t natural Labour voters”.