Purnell: Labour needs vitality and vision – 8 in the morning, January 11th

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* JAMES PURNELL SAYS LABOUR CAN STILL WIN: “We only need to go back to the values of the early Labour movement”.

* PETER MANDELSON’S POSITION IN POLITICS IS UNPRECEDENTED, writes Bruce Anderson in the Independent

* EACH PLOT HAS BEEN LESS CONVINCING THAN THE LAST, says William Rees-Mogg in the Times.

* PAUL RICHARDS PREDICTS THE ATMOSPHERE AT TONIGHT’S PLP MEETING.

* CHARLIE BROOKER TAKES A MORE WHIMSICAL VIEW and comes up with four pleges Labour should make.

* WE CAN BEAT THEM, WE MUST BEAT THEM, the PM is likely to say at tonight’s PLP meet.

* A DOUBLE DIP RECESSION REMAINS POSSIBLE, writes David Blanchflower in this week’s New Statesman.