Ed Miliband’s 8ft (2.4m) stone – engraved with Labour manifesto pledges – has drawn a fair amount of flak on social media. Mr Farage’s favourite, foaming, frothy prop is a pint of ale. EdStone, as it was quickly labelled, is just the latest in a long line of political props, some more successful than others. Think of Mr Miliband’s predecessor, Harold Wilson, and you might well picture him with pipe in hand, perhaps pausing to light up before answering an interviewer’s question. But it would return to haunt him when, in the face of growing evidence, the government eventually admitted there was a link between BSE and the human form of the disease, new variant CJD. In Cheltenham, Mr Major climbed atop a soapbox, external – actually a Central Office document box – and went on to record an unexpected victory. Tucking into a burger with his daughter Cordelia, then four, at a boat show in 1990, he was agriculture minister at a time of growing concern, external over “mad cow” disease, or BSE. His upturned Irn Bru crates travelled with him on his 100 Towns in 100 Days tour of the country. Not all props prove so successful, however. With the country gripped by recession, Mr Major’s Conservatives were trailing in the polls during the 1992 election campaign when the prime minister was jostled by hecklers in Luton. If your political knowledge is too sketchy to recall him as a minister for the best part of a decade under both Mrs Thatcher and John Major, then this photograph might help. Mr Farage has claimed to be the only politician “keeping the flame of Thatcherism alive”, and the Iron Lady’s prop of choice – the handbag – could be used to devastating effect. So what better place for the UKIP leader to be snapped than in a pub? Looking “dead normal” would be a prerequisite for leading a People’s Army, as Nigel Farage and his supporters style themselves. By then, he was environment secretary under John Major – another man remembered for using a prop to good effect. However, Mr Wilson was known to prefer cigars in private. Having been forced to use a megaphone to make himself heard, Mr Major announced at his next trip that he would resort to using an old political tool to deliver his message. When accompanied by an enthusiastic expression, it’s an irresistible combination for picture editors. It was intended as a demonstration of confidence that British beef was “perfectly safe” to eat. Only last year, Labour’s Jim Murphy enjoyed some success with a variation on the theme while campaigning for a No vote in the Scottish independence referendum.

Mr Murphy has a fight on his hands to preserve his party’s usual dominance in Scotland during this election campaign, with David Cameron keen to play up the influence of Labour’s main challenger the SNP. Clearly, something about showing something off in black and white appeals to politicians. The Liberal Democrats tried it too, last time around. Question Time’s leaders special. Whether it proves as successful as Mr Major’s soap box, or goes the way of a William Hague baseball cap remains to be seen. If this infamous saga left voters sceptical as to whether pledges are worth the paper they’re written on, then perhaps the permanence of stone attracted Ed Miliband to dream of planting a slab in the Downing Street garden. Labour’s pledge card was employed by Tony Blair to highlight promises such as cutting class sizes and NHS waiting lists, ahead of the 1997 landslide. Mr Blair’s signature. Who knows whether anyone got in touch to check but Mr Blair’s long-time deputy John Prescott evidently thought it was a good idea, repeating the trick in the next three election campaigns. The PM’s been regularly deploying his favourite prop – the increasingly dog-eared note left by Labour’s last Treasury Secretary Liam Byrne informing his successor there was “no money left”.

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