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Ed Miliband said recently that he’s glad Spitting Image no longer exists. Does that make him less of a man than Maggie Thatcher, who famously enjoyed Yes Minister? And what about Sir Gerald Kaufman, who even wrote for That Was The Week That Was, between standing for elections? Or is he more of a David Steel, who apparently loathed his Spitting Image alter ego, a tiny figure who sat literally in David Owen’s pocket. So just how much are our current crop of politicians haunted by the spectre of satire? Do they get the night sweats at visions of Russell

Clip from ITV’s Newzoids