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Ed Miliband Articles

Let’s not get too self-congratulatory

Let's get the important stuff out of the way first. The proposals Ed Miliband made this morning are useful, right and will improve the Labour party, making it a better and more open place. They should be wholeheartedly and loudly supported. For anyone outside of the...

Miliband’s audacious gamble

It is normally sensible to check the small print beneath politicians’ rhetorical flourishes but Ed Miliband’s claim today to be introducing the most far-reaching changes to the way Labour selects its candidates since John Smith’s introduction of one member one vote...

Let’s make Ed’s reforms work

I hope with today’s bold announcement about party reform, following on the heels of economic and welfare policy announcements, fellow members who like me are on the right of the Labour party, but unlike me didn’t vote for Ed as Leader, get what the qualities were that...

Better than a Blairite speech

In the end, what it really comes down to is what you think the role of ordinary trade unionists should be in the Labour party: should they be active and engaged, or should they exist to be invoked in favour of arguments you've already lost? On the ‘active and engaged’...