After being ridiculed for so long as the missing triplet from Wallace and Gromit, Mr Miliband suddenly found himself attractive, as the ‘Milifan’ craze swept social media.

Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

RED ED – the nickname which the new British Labour Party leader abominates – was anything but red in tooth and claw when he addressed the party conference in Manchester yesterday.