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Paper Monitor

11:58 UK time, Friday, 22 April 2011

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

Every political leader has to prove they are a normal bloke or blokette.

Gordon Brown tried, David Cameron tried and now Ed Miliband is trying.

How else to prove your ordinary bloke credentials than a big interview in the Sun, holding up a copy of said periodical.

There's an interview alongside, but it's all the usual stuff. What's far more interesting is which page Miliband has the newspaper open at.

It's from 14 April it seems. Paper Monitor recalls that the previous day's main stories were the health secretary in a row with nurses, Libya, and the detention of ex-Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.

But Miliband is reading a paper that led on "______ hooker bedded married star" and "Footie star's affair with Big Bro ______". Oh, and "Zeta in mental clinic".

He doesn't appear to be looking at page three.

But in any case for a man who has to deny allegations that his stag night will be "two Fabian Society lectures and half a pint of beer", it's perhaps a necessary bit of image management.

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