Ed Miliband's office is "irritated" that they were not told Angela Merkel was coming to London. They found out from media not Foreign Office

— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) January 6, 2015

The visit was first reported in the British media on 27 December – in the evil Murdoch press.

Have Team Miliband really not managed to ask for a meeting through the German Embassy since then?

Perhaps Ed wasn’t making it up when he said he didn’t read the papers…