Dermot Murnaghan pushed a favourite question on his Sky News show yesterday morning. He forced Sadiq Khan down the awkward “is Miliband Michael Foot?” avenue. As you can see the Shadow Justice secretary’s answer was a full, frank and rousing defence of his leader:

“Look at the two most recent opposition leaders who have gone on to become Prime Ministers, Tony Blair brilliantly done, became leader in 1994, a number of years, 15 years after we had been kicked out of power.  David Cameron himself became leader of the Conservatives in 2005, eight years after they…”

No wonder the one time confidant and campaign manager is now considered a liability by Ed’s team…