Ed Miliband Articles

Three things Ed Miliband’s conference speech must do —Conference speeches are one of the opposition leader’s few guaranteed media platforms so the temptation for Ed Miliband to fill his with a rerun of every argument and announcement denied a fair hearing must be...

Taking ‘One Nation’ Labour to the next stage We can agree that the tough positions Ed Miliband has taken on welfare and public spending since the spring are necessary, because Labour will not be trusted to govern if its numbers do not add up. But the immediate price...

I’m not in Brighton this week, so I’ve decided to put the conference to the ‘breaking through’ test that I called for in last week’s column. What’s the impact of the conference on people who aren’t there and probably didn’t even know it’s happening? In one sense, I...

Having opened the door to reform of the link, there is no going back ‘Clause IV moment’ has become a synonym for a deliberate decisive shift in a policy which positively transforms a party’s fortunes. The main myth of Tony Blair’s ‘Clause IV moment’ was that it was a...