The right explanation for the Liberal Democrats’ uncommon cheeriness: Ed Miliband is doing worse

By Bagehot

ARRIVING at the Liberal Democrats’ annual birthday celebration conference in Birmingham on Sunday, the main factor your blogger observed as he emerged from the protection tents was as soon as two colorful ministerial Jaguars, prominently parked either facet of the glass entrance doorways to the conference advanced. Blimey, it’s miles handle turning as a lot as a recording of a tv sport display, I believed.