4. Labour

The Labour leadership election is terrible for satire. Bring back Ed Miliband

Spare a thought for Britain's starving satirists, who'll find scant material
in the likes of Andy Burnham, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper

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feel that politics is so much the poorer for it.

From a satirical point of view, Ed was gold dust. Ed was box office. Ed
was to political comedy what Muhammad Ali was to boxing, and it saddens
me that the quartet of Labour MPs running to succeed him seem

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lovely woman, a great MP, an effective minister, a loving wife and
mother. But apart from her "ice-pixie" nickname there is literally
nothing to work with in the comedy department. Satirists will be
heading down to Job Centre Plus en masse if she sneaks through on
second preferences.