Labour leadership
What will Ed Miliband do on spending?
The political mood has shifted these past few weeks. There’s now, as the Sunday papers demonstrate, far more focus on Labour than there was a couple of months back, something… Continue reading
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The other Miliband under attack
By now, we’re all used to waking up to newspaper columns describing Ed Miliband’s flaws and proclaiming him unfit to lead the Labour party. But today, it’s David Miliband who’s… Continue reading
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Why David Miliband’s article matters
The most curious thing about David Miliband’s article for the latest New Statesman — which is causing quite a stir this morning — is that it should appear now. After… Continue reading
26 CommentsMiliband tells the unions ‘tough’
Ed Miliband has just done a TV clip full of the kind of quotes that politicians love using. In an interview with Nick Robinson (above), the Labour leader declared that… Continue reading
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What will Miliband do now?
The Labour leader Ed Miliband has been determined not to define himself by picking fights against his own side. He didn’t want to do a Blair or a Cameron and… Continue reading
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More Mili-woe
It gets worse for Ed Miliband in the polls today. After revealing last week that just 20 per cent of the public think he’s doing well as Labour leader, YouGov… Continue reading
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Miliband’s speech fails to excite
Was Ed’s Big Speech worth the extended wait? Not really. It wasn’t a stone-cold terrible speech, but neither was it the rambunctious, attention-grabbing number that his leadership could do with.… Continue reading
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Enter, David Miliband?
‘Every day, in every way, it’s getting worse for Ed Miliband.’ That’s what I said last Thursday, and it has been more or less borne out since then. Friday, of… Continue reading
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The Miliband puzzle
So why did Ed Miliband stop his brother being leader of the Labour Party? As each month of his uninspiring leadership passes, it becomes more of a puzzle. In today’s… Continue reading
59 CommentsMiliband is trapped in his own foggy argument
With one well-timed jab in PMQs, David Cameron turned much of this week’s political debate – in domestic terms, at least – into a debate about Ed Miliband’s leadership. And… Continue reading
25 CommentsEd Miliband, closet Glee fan?
What to make of Ed Miliband’s disclosure yesterday that Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ is his favourite song? Ben Brogan smells a rat: “If he’s a Journey fan, then I’m… Continue reading
17 CommentsFor one night only, David Miliband returns
David Miliband was studiously loyal to his brother in his one speaking appearance at Labour conference. He told Movement for Change, the community organising group that he founded, that ‘Ed… Continue reading
5 CommentsCan Labour make the right kind of news this week?
The great Labour worry about this week is that they’ll be relegated to the ‘in other news’ section of the evening bulletins. There’s a real sense of a struggle for… Continue reading
10 CommentsMiliband versus the Brothers
Ed Miliband is the Brothers’ man, or so the popular myth relates. Miliband has been trying to shake that perception ever since his election was secured by the union vote. He… Continue reading
19 CommentsMiliband: We can’t go on like this
It’s odd how political leaders often address their parties in the clichéd terms of soap operas’ most tortured romances. Ed Miliband pre-trailed speech to the Labour’s National Policy Forum in… Continue reading
21 CommentsMiliband tries to strengthen his hand
Ed Miliband is to abolish shadow cabinet elections. Tony Blair, fearful of the reaction of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), shied away from doing this. But Miliband has decided that… Continue reading
22 CommentsMore than a soap opera
David Miliband is considering a return to frontline British politics. At least that is what Andrew Grice has heard. He reports: ‘David Miliband is considering a surprise comeback to frontline… Continue reading
12 CommentsDavid Miliband should join the shadow Cabinet or quit British politics
David Miliband’s statement today declares that he ‘wants no part’ of the ‘soap opera’ of leadership drama. But as long as David Miliband remains outside the shadow Cabinet and, therefore… Continue reading
27 CommentsThe Milidrama
No paper has been more critical of Ed Miliband than The Times. So it is in some ways not a surprise that the paper’s leader column today declares that he has… Continue reading
19 CommentsWhat David Miliband would have said if he had become Labour leader
Tonight’s Guardian scoop revealing that the speech that David Miliband would have given if he had been elected leader makes this one of the most difficult—and leaky—weeks for Labour since… Continue reading
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