In many ways, it is a complex 21st-century version of the 19th-century idea of a supportive little woman – inoffensive yet gossipy, something to titillate the jaded public palate, and make the electorate perceive human qualities in their strong-but-fallible leaders.
His task was not made any easier by the frequently critical Blackley and Broughton MP Graham Stringer telling a fringe meeting in Manchester that Miliband had "failed to make a human connection with the electorate" and was "incapable of fighting the next election on personality".
"It is convenient for them to make allegations in order to hide the effect of losing support and the lack of policies to put to the electorate". A recent human rights report of the United States State Department, however, concurs with Ssemogerere's assessment of the dangers to Democratic Party members.
While the west has also projected its power and dealt with equally noxious states, domestic political constraints make such "deals with the devil" increasingly difficult to sell to an electorate attuned to human rights, ethics, and governance.
They pursued improbable comebacks, appealed to the loftier instincts of a jaded electorate, laid faith in the human capacity for forgiveness and invoked the enduring American myth of redemption.
Take the independent MP Cathy McGowan, who has bucked conventional wisdom by taking a public stand on human rights despite representing a deeply conservative rural electorate.
"I think Melissa Parke is known in the electorate for her advocacy in relation to human rights, particularly with regard to refugees," she told Guardian Australia for an earlier feature on the electoral contest.
The speeches will be a window for the British electorate to see whether Labour can tell the human stories that win elections, rather than just settling old scores.
And the electorate undergoes big political shifts over time, even if human reflexes don't.
There is no electorate that can toss the Libyans out of the human rights commissioner's chair, no judicial system that can try corrupt officials.
