Miliband's 'tombstone' goes missing in UK

The hunt was on across Britain yesterday to find the defeated Labour Party's much-derided giant monolith bearing their election pledges carved in stone.

Ed Miliband, who quit as opposition Labour leader on Friday following the Conservatives' general election triumph, unveiled the tablet of stone on May 3, with six rock-solid commitments written on it.

The 2.6-metre-high monument was quickly dubbed the Ed Stone, the Milistone, the Policy Cenotaph and Miliband's political tombstone, with newspapers comparing the Labour leader to Moses and the Ten Commandments.

Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson branded the grey limestone slab the "heaviest suicide note in history".

The monolith was to have been erected in glory in the Downing Street garden following Thursday's election -- but has now vanished. The Labour Party added to the mystery by refusing to discuss the stone at all.

It was unveiled in a car park in Hastings on the southern English coast.

Britain's newspapers are on the trail: the Daily Mail is offering a case of champagne for information leading to the discovery of the Ed Stone. The Sun has opened a hotline.