History has its mysteries – the building of Stonehenge, the fate of the Mary Celeste – but little is as baffling as the rise of Ed Miliband.
On Monday Andy Burnham named his Cabinet. Initially all seemed fine: despite rumours, Mr Miliband was not going to be Chancellor. Financiers loosened their girdles. Families thought ‘phew’.
Then came the sucker-punch. Instead of being sent to the Treasury, Mr Miliband was given the Foreign Office.
Red Ed as Foreign Secretary? You might more plausibly claim Alan ‘Chattyman’ Carr had become a Trappist abbot or the Dalai Lama had taken up golf. At the world’s top
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