Balls slams Miliband ‘soap opera’: 8 in the morning: August 31st

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* Writing for LabourList, Ed Balls attacked the “Miliband soap opera” and laid out his housing plans.

* Polly Toynbee rails at “vain, venal has-beens”, and their interbentions in the leadership contest…

* Steve Richards says it’s time to move on from New Labour.

* David Miliband is said to be irked by Peter Mandelson’s intervention in the leadership race.

* The old guard meanwhile have hit back at Mandelson.

* Mary Riddell says the race isn’t as important as what comes next.

* Tony Blair looks set to attack Gordon Brown’s record in government as his book is published.

* And Gordon Brown writes for the Independent on Niger, a nation “dying in silence”.

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