I’ve read Adam Trimingham’s rather unpleasant personal attack on Ed Miliband twice, and like other press coverage I can find a lot about the one line he forgot in an hour-long speech he made without notes, or how he eats a bacon sandwich and the fact he gave money to a homeless person in a slightly awkward way.

What I can’t find is any criticism of Ed’s policies – policies to tackle low wages and in-work poverty, to get more homes built, to save the NHS and provide the excellent schools our young people need.

Is this how we are going to fight the next election, on image and personal attacks rather than policies? Is this the democracy our grandparents fought to save?

As for being a ‘professional politician’, I hope that the prospective prime minister is just that. I want a professional doing that important job, not a part-timer or amateur.

Unlike the public school educated, millionaire former banker-turned professional politician Nigel Farage, or millionaire David Cameron who worked only briefly in television PR outside of Westminster, Ed is not ‘removed from the concerns of ordinary working people’ and we shouldn’t be fooled by a privileged few who see him as a threat.

Ed Miliband is a decent, intelligent and principled man, who will make a far better prime minister than the current incumbent or any of the other alternatives on offer.

Councillor Warren Morgan, Leader of the Labour and Co-operative Group

Twitter @warrenmorgan