Conservatives are winning a cultural campaign to nationalise their political bereavement and it will do them no favours in the end.

Everyone waited for the Labour leader to say something on welfare. He did but (for obvious reasons) no one noticed.

The soap opera saga needed bringing to an end and the thwarted brother's emigration does the job as well as reconciliation.

Even the sceptics accept that Miliband’s stance requires integrity and strength of will.