By James Chapman The scale of the leadership crisis engulfing Ed Miliband was revealed yesterday when Labour was forced to wheel out Neil Kinnock to defend him. Lord Kinnock, who led the party to two crushing general election defeats in 1987 and 1992, sought to blame the media for the leader’s woes. His desperate defence came as allies claimed Mr Miliband’s leadership is only being criticised because he is  on course to become Prime Minister next year with a Commons majority of at  least 40 seats. Mockery: Ed Miliband's similarities to Lord Kinnock led the Guardian to publish this photomontage of him morphing into his predecessor
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Lord Kinnock led party to two crushing election defeats in 1987 and 1992
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He condemned the ‘vindictiveness’ of the media attacks on Mr Miliband
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Comes as Guardian printed photomontage of him morphing into Kinnock
It emerged that he told a conference earlier this month that working-class voters ‘don’t believe they are in any story that @placeholder is telling about the future of this country’.