RedEd faces one very important question as he takes to the streets of Oldham today. Perhaps one of the good voters, if he’s allowed to meet any real ones that is, or one of the travelling hacks might like to ask the Labour leader why exactly he stood so firmly by the disgraced Phil Woolas? Miliband never saw fit to publicly criticise Woolas’s deploying of lying, racist smear tactics that should have been condemned regardless of what a court said.

Instead Ed personally appointed Woolas onto his Front Bench team…