Labour leadership contenders turn to literature

[jolies_couleurs]

When asked what book they (the five candidates) would recommend reading for pleasure, Ed Balls replied, 'Middlemarch'! Gets my vote (if I had one

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[poliphilo]

Tony Blair once nominated Ivanhoe as his favourite book- presumably on the grounds that is a sort of a classic and vaguely patriotic. I find it hard to believe he had ever read it (and certainly not for fun).