ConHome apologises to her for any damage caused.
“There is a degree of momentum, it seems, building up behind Liz Kendall which could put her in a position to challenge the man who seemed the runaway favourite.”
Unlike every other victorious Labour leadership candidate of the past 30 years, he drew most of his support from party members and MPs.
Where were they to condemn these bad ideas before May?
The British Obama walks abroad in Swindon to make his case that England is Labour’s vital battleground at the next election.
Like Charles I, the Labour leader can only be finished off by a sufficiently powerful alliance.
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter The media is intent on a "Tory splits" narrative. Given the obsessive focus on any hint of disagreement on the blue side of the House, it is surprising that there has been so little reporting of Labour's splits. They do have them – three in the last four days, in fact. Here […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Ed Miliband didn't win in Scotland. He didn't win in Bradford West – his candidate was humiliated by one of the most odious people in British politics. What if Ed Miliband doesn't win in London? William Hill have already cut the odds on Mr Miliband being ousted. Ed Balls is […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Will Ed Miliband open up Labour's leadership elections to the public? Not quite. Mr Miliband has tabled proposals at a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee to create "tens of thousands" of "registered supporters" who will be eligible to vote in future leadership elections. However, the "registered supporters" would be included in the […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter The BBC is reporting that Scottish Labour MP Tom Harris "has stated his interest in becoming the new Labour leader in Scotland.". Harris is firmly on the centre-left, and was one of Labour's star bloggers before leaving the blogosphere last year. He also stood, unsuccessfully, for the Shadow Cabinet elections […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Labour politicians have long pointed to their "Plan B", and their deficit reduction strategy that would, apparently, be carried out slower than the Coalition plan, and be less "painful". Ed Balls, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, told the House on Thursday – in a debate on the Global Economy, during the […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter The impression from the papers today and over the last few days is that Ed Miliband is under attack from the Blairite "right" of the Labour Party: David Miliband's leaked victory speech (what might have been, if he'd won), the Telegraph files showing Ed Miliband and Ed Balls plotted […]
By Paul Goodman It should go roughly like this – "Conference, my election as this Party's leader was the greatest moment of my political life. But we have to face the facts – namely, that two out of three parts of our electoral college voted for someone else. And not just any old two parts. […]
By Tim Montgomerie CCHQ have had a good few days. The machine has purred over the last 72 hours as it sought to win the early and vital battle to define Ed Miliband in the public mind. Publicly there was Matt Hancock's identification of a £67bn black hole in Ed Miliband's economic plans. Once he […]
By Tim Montgomerie I'm grateful to the Observer for highlighting this envelope that the GMB used to send its members ballot papers for the Labour leadership election: Labour rules forbid the inclusion of a candidate's literature being put inside an envelope containing ballot papers. What the GMB appears to have done is send their members […]