article_snippet.sent: But the story of the pair's first meeting offers a fascinating insight into the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader.
article_snippet.sent: For, not only did the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader knife the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader elder brother in the back by ending the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader dream of getting the Labour leadership by standing against the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader (contrary to the wishes of the Labour leadership mother), but the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader met the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader future wife Justine (albeit unwittingly) at that dinner party hosted by the somewhat caddish character of the Labour Leader then girlfriend.
article_snippet.sent: In the biography of the Labour leader, titled Ed: The Milibands And The Making Of A Labour Leader, an associate is quoted as saying: 'Although Justine was struck by an associate eyes — wide and brown and fixed on their subject — a friend remembers Justine undoubted excitement after meeting Ed as: 'Gosh, how fascinating, an associate's really clever', rather than: 'Gosh, how handsome'.'
article_snippet.sent: It was left to Tony Blair's biographer John Rentoul to let the cat out of the bag after reading the the Daily Mirror story, when Tony Blair's tweeted: 'Justine on clandestine Ed.
article_snippet.sent: Considering that his future wife, at the time, was economics editor of BBC-TV's flagship Newsnight, Rentoul added: 'Could the secrecy have been because Mr Miliband was a Treasury special adviser and Stephanie Flanders was a BBC economics journalist?'
article_snippet.sent: What's more, there is another intriguing twist to this story of high politics and high economics.
article_snippet.sent: It was while They were working at the Financial Times as leader writers that They friendship blossomed into a serious relationship.
article_snippet.sent: The way these relationships intertwined also highlights the deeply incestuous and narrow world of the Labour high command.
article_snippet.sent: At the time, Juliet was dating the Blairite journalist Phil Collins (who went on to write speeches for Blair).
article_snippet.sent: Not only had Their personal lives meshed, but Their professional ones, too, as Justine (who was a member of the Labour Party) had written a book on the environment.