Miliband faces criticism over failure to sign WW-I commemoration wreath

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Labour leader Ed Miliband has to face a fiery criticism on Monday for failing to sign a wreath laid at commemorations for the centenary of the First World War.

Around 1,100 people including Commonwealth dignitaries came together to pay their respects at a commemoration ceremony in Glasgow to mark 100 years since Britain entered the conflict.

Meanwhile it has also emerged Prime Minister David Cameron was the only senior guest allowed to include a personal message.

Mr Cameron has written a note in the honour of soldiers died in the war, saying: “Your most enduring legacy is our liberty. We must never forget.”

While the other guest leaders including Mr Miliband, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond had laid wreaths with only their titles printed in a large scrawl handwritten by the organisers in similar format.

Still only the labour leader was branded as “crass and insensitive” for not writing a message and signing the wreath in contrast to Mr Cameron’s tribute message.

Afterwards the party has told that Mr Miliband was given the wreath only ‘seconds’ before he laid it.

A Labour Party spokesperson has said: “Ed Miliband was not given the opportunity to write a personal message on the wreath and was only handed it seconds before he had to lay it.”

It has also been indicated that Mr Miliband came prepared to write a personal tribute message but the procedure varied from what usually happens at the cenotaph in London and he had to take the wreath without getting the chance to sign his name.

The leader of opposition had earlier tweeted: “Today we remember the soldiers who gave their lives fighting for freedom in the First World War.”

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