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I will not be joining Jon this Saturday
Actually, the title of my blog post is supposed to be a pale irony about trumpeting something which is really completely insignificant. For example, Jon Cruddas is now backing Gordon Brown – stop...
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I have now decided who to vote for
There is no doubt in my mind who I’m going to vote for for the next Labour leader, with a view to him becoming Prime Minister of the UK eventually. I have thought about the options extremely carefully...
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Yes, foreign policy matters in choosing our next leader
Yesterday’s London Evening Standard had David Miliband as clearly ahead in all senses in the Labour leadership contest. As a member of the Labour Party, and well aware that if he wins, he is likely to...
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I will vote for David Miliband if we move on from New Labour
I know that the title sounds incredibly petty, but many including the Mirror wish him to become leader, and the Tories apparently terrified for him. I’m seeing Ed at Haverstock Hill School on Sunday in...
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A view point from Timothee Defaramond as to why David Miliband should be leader
Many thanks to Timothee Defamond for the account below of why voters should strongly consider putting David Miliband down as their no.1 choice for the Labour leadership. There is one thing that David...
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Sunny Hundal's post about the future of the Labour Party
What are your thoughts? Posred by Sunny Hundal Christopher Cook of the FT thinks I’m implying Conservatives are lying when I say Labourites should be careful of who they are publicly ‘worried about’...
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Is Labour uniting behind a new leader for an autumn of discontent?
People who dislike Labour love reminding themselves of when Denis Healey had to ‘beg’ to the IMF for a loan to keep Britain afloat. Labour took a long time to shrug off the notion that unions were...
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This is no time for a psychodrama
One thing that I am sure that the Sky party at my conference was high on was gossip. Reporters such as Nick Robinson, Laura Kuenssberg and Adam Boulton would have been interested in the psychodynamics...
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BBC R4 Today and the squeezed hard-working non-upper class
Friday morning with John Humphrys is not going to be an occasion Ed is going to forget in a hurry, because of an extraordinarily tough interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. Ed Miliband’s...
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