So who’ll be “The Next Leader Of the Next Generation?” Hats off to Ladbrokes for being first off the mark to price up a market on the next Labour leader after Ed Miliband. Given Labour’s loyalty to its leaders it’s quite likely that Ed Miliband will be leader for the next two general elections. His successor is likely to be a new MP. Not only are political leaders younger, as Michael Crick astutely pointed out recently, young candidates have a…
Channel 4 News Will the sore continue to fester? The beaten brother in Labour’s leadership election, David Miliband, is expected to make a statement today that could see the end of a front-line role in British politics. Certainly the way that the coverage of his bother’s maiden speech developed into the story of his reprimand to Harriet Harman for clapping the statement that the Iraq war was a mistake was a good illustration of what’s likely to happen if he…
FT blogs There are a number of reports that beaten leadership contender, David Miliband, has left Manchester and is on his way back to London. There’s a strong suggestion that he hasn’t filled in his shadow cabinet papers which have to be in by 5pm tomorrow. If so then it would appear that he’s backing down from front-line politics. The day must have been very challenging with the big story this evening being the comments he was seen to have…
Is that the value bet following EdM’s big speech? What struck me about the economic parts of Ed Miliband’s speech was what it said about the chances of Ed Balls getting the job of shadow chancellor. It really is hard to see EdM giving him the role giving the very different approach the two men have to the deficit. Also the two are said to have a “history” going back to the election that never was in the autumn of…
How’ll the new leader’s message go down?
Click to play When will they learn – we want the fecking numbers! Fortunately on Saturday afternoon I watched the Labour leadership results being announced on SkyNews and have only just caught up with how the BBC did after reading of a formal complaint made by a PB regular to the BBC and reported on the previous thread. It’s the same fault we get every time. They don’t think that we want the numbers so we had the ridiculous spectacle…
First preferences Abbott Balls Burnham DaveM EdM UNITE 11129 6995 7993 21778 47439 GMB 3213 2548 3119 9746 18128 UNISON 2910 2141 2343 6665 9652 Other 21 bodies 8686 9934 4449 20000 12366 Total affiliates 25938 21618 17904 58189 87585 Overall split 12.28% 10.23% 8.48% 27.55% 41.46% UNITE SPLIT 11.67% 7.34% 8.38% 22.84% 49.76% Should one union be so influential? As everybody knows it was the heavy voting for Ed Miliband in the “associates” third of Labour’s electoral college that…
Poll Date CON LAB LD LEAD YouGov/Sun 27/09/10 39 40 12 -1 YouGov/Sunday Times 24/09/10 39 38 15 1 YouGov/Sun 23/09/10 41 37 13 4 YouGov/Sun 22/09/10 43 36 14 7 YouGov/Sun 21/09/10 39 39 13 0 YouGov/Sun 20/09/10 42 38 11 4 YouGov/Sunday Times 17/09/10 41 39 13 2 YouGov/Sun 16/09/10 41 38 12 3 YouGov/Sun 15/09/10 42 39 12 3 YouGov/Sun 14/09/10 40 39 12 1 YouGov/Sun 13/09/10 41 38 12 3 YouGov/Sunday Times 10/09/10 42 38 14…