Macavity smears the Young Pretender?

Interesting article on this morning's Mail on Sunday. Apparently, David Miliband has been exploiting loopholes in the tax system to avoid inheritance tax on the estate of the his late father, the Marxist sociologist Ralph Miliband.

Now, he's (and his brother Ed) have not done anything illegal, in fact, fair play to them in my view, if you can reduce a large tax bill then you should, nothing wrong with that, but then I'm not on the Left. That last observation is the crucial point, there is no story other than the political dimension. A left winger, from an historically Marxist family, are playing the bourgeois game of tax avoidance.

A useful thing for Lefties planning to vote in a leadership election to know I'd say. And there's no sign of Macavity around it of course, but it's certainly a useful insurance policy. A shot across Miliband's bow of what will happen if he stands perhaps? Horse's head in the best next I reckon!

Update: Apparently Miliband has told the Observer he will vote for Brown. I wonder if he said that before or after he knew this story was running in the MoS? Note, that "friends close to" Miliband were quoted in the Times last week saying they expected "horribleness" if he ran i.e. smears.