article_snippet.sent: Whether Mr Miliband is in a car park, a factory or even a field, Mr Miliband is never far from a lectern during the campaign.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband has delivered key speeches in the campaign stood behind a lectern.
article_snippet.sent: But a lectern has also been deployed when Mr Miliband is just making some brief remarks or holding question and answer events with members of the public.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband has delivered key speeches in the campaign stood behind the lectern - including at a NHS rally in Leeds on April 23 (left).
article_snippet.sent: But a lectern has also been deployed when Mr Miliband is just making some brief remarks or holding question and answer events - and even in the middle of a field in Nuneaton
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband’s enthusiasm for speaking from behind a podium comes after Mr Miliband’s disastrous party conference speech last September
article_snippet.sent: when Mr Miliband’s forgot to mention the deficit while speaking without a lectern or autocue.
article_snippet.sent: When Mr Miliband’s unveiled the party’s manifesto in Manchester Mr Miliband’s also spoke from behind the lectern.
article_snippet.sent: And during Mr Miliband’s audience question and answer in the first televised leaders’ debate on Channel 4 and Sky News Mr Miliband’s chose to speak from behind a lectern, while David Cameron chose instead to have a stool on stage.
article_snippet.sent: the lectern has also been used in some more unconventional settings though.
article_snippet.sent: As Mr Miliband’s spoke in the car park of an engineering factory in Loughborough the lectern was put on a small raised platform next to a puddle.
article_snippet.sent: When Mr Miliband’s visited the national Composites Centre in Bristol Mr Miliband’s conducted a Q&A in front of an aeroplane with the lectern.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband’s spoke from behind a lectern, even though Mr Miliband’s was in the middle of a cricket pitch.
article_snippet.sent: The constant use of the lectern is thought to be part of a strategy to make Mr Miliband look more like a man who could be prime minister.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Sheehan’s website includes a video where Mr Miliband’s advises politicians on how to speak at a lectern, including not holding onto the sides in what Mr Miliband’s calls a ‘death grip’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband has started taking a lectern with Mr Miliband everywhere Mr Miliband speaks .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband has appeared behind a lectern throughout the campaign .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband even spoke from behind a lectern in the middle of a field .
  