“My view is this. If you’re Scottish, you don’t need an English person telling you what to do. You know what you’re gonna be doing. If you’re in Brighton, I think it would be a travesty if we lost the voice of Caroline Lucas in Westminster. But anywhere else, you’ve gotta vote Labour… on May 7th, vote Labour.”

Leaving Labour types struggling to work out whether an endorsement of a Labour-SNP-Green government is a good or bad thing.

Not quite the message Ed was looking for…