Miliband finds his scoring boots in assault on Pessina

The Labour leader doesn’t always hit the open goals, as playwright David Hare reminded us at the weekend

Columnist Nigel Horne

I’m not sure that Stefano Pessina, the boss of Boots the Chemists, would have been cowering in the nappy aisle after Ed Miliband’s counter-attack yesterday – but supporters of the Labour leader were at least pleased to see the Italian get a taste of his own medicine.

Pessina had told the Sunday Telegraph that a Labour government would be a “catastrophe” for Britain. The party’s policies, he told the paper, would be “not helpful for business, not helpful for the country and in the end… probably won’t be helpful for them.”

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Nigel Horne is Comment Editor of The Week.co.uk. He was formerly Editor of the website until September 2013. He previously held executive roles at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.