Russell Brand, Ed Miliband - and the truth Labour is trying to hide about THAT meeting

Harvey Jones argues that Labour ignored public warning signs before Ed Miliband's 2015 interview with Russell Brand, and most of the evidence he lists is a matter of public record that matches other coverage. He opens, though, by naming Owen Jones, George Monbiot, Alastair Campbell and Andy Burnham as figures who "fell for the sex pest", and never shows anything any of them did.

Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.

1. Guilt by association

   Minor

   “Huge names right across the Left fell for the sex pest”

   Why this matters

   In its own voice the Express casts the whole Left, through its "huge names", as having fallen for Brand. It then fills that category in S4 with named people.

   The impression it gives

   A reader believes there was a broad, documented embrace of Brand across Left figures, and that the people named in S4 were part of it.

   The context

   The body documents one event, the 2015 Miliband interview, and Lucy Powell's reported role in it. Nothing in the article supports the wider "right across the Left" claim or puts any of the other named people in it.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“Brand's infamous 2015 interview with then Labour leader Miliband”