Ed Miliband’s mate Professor David Held has resigned from the LSE before he was pushed. Held welcomed Saif Gaddafi to the LSE as “a representative of the Miliband Foundation” and buttered him up by citing his reforming credentials and respect for human rights:
Held mentored the murderer and oversaw his controversial doctorate, he also took a cheeky £1.5m from Gaddafi’s charitable foundation. The Miliband family have close ties to Dartmouth Park neighbouor Held, with Ed heaping praise on the disgraced professor of political science, despite his Libyan connections being widely known. The Miliband family are apparently “incredibly grateful” to him:
The LSE brought shame upon themselves in this dark period, and one head on a stick won’t restore their tarnished reputation…
See also: Clearing out the Rot, Labour and Gaddafi, Follow the Money Miliband’s Ideological Guru in Pay of Saif Gaddafi.