A war of words erupted yesterday as Ed Miliband declared himself ‘furious’ at the Daily Mail for a trenchant attack on his father’s Marxist beliefs. The Labour leader said he was ‘appalled’ at the newspaper’s refusal to retract its article about Ralph Miliband – headlined ‘The Man Who Hated Britain’ – and launched a petition to condemn it. But the newspaper said it stood by every word of its essay, which some commentators praised as a fair profile of a refugee to Britain who was a staunch supporter of what the Mail calls ‘one of the world’s most poisonous political doctrines’.
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Ed Miliband said he is 'appalled' that the Mail hasn't retracted its article about father Ralph
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But some commentators have described it as a fair profile of a staunch Marxist
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Coalition party leaders David Cameron and Nick Clegg have weighed into the row
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