12 Things Ed Miliband Wants You To Forget

8. Miliband Was An Adviser To Chancellor Gordon Brown... Yet He Wants To Position Labour As The Party Who Can Save Britain's Economy

The Conservatives' favourite electoral stick with which to beat Labour with is that they were the party who left the country with a huge deficit and in an "economic mess". Therefore, in an ideal world, Ed Miliband would love to distance himself from the perceived failings of the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown administrations - but he simply can't, because he was heavily involved in both. While Blair was Prime Minister, Miliband was first of all special adviser to Chancellor Gordon Brown and then Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, helping to shape Britain's economic strategy. Then, during Miliband's campaign to become MP for Doncaster North in 2005, Brown even visited the area in support. Miliband's decision to make Ed Balls his Shadow Chancellor also creates a link to the New Labour administrations, as the latter was also heavily involved in economic policy while in government. Unfortunately for Miliband, every time David Cameron or Chancellor George Osborne brings up Labour's economic record, he is intrinsically linked to that. For some of the electorate, this could well be enough to put them off voting for Labour while the economy still remains on a knife-edge.