Immigration “cost Labour election”: 8 in the morning – August 23rd

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* A report from Demos suggests that Labour lost the election in part over immigration.

* Andy Burnham attacks party “elites”.

* Ed Miliband urges unhappy Lib Dems to defect to Labour.

* And he’s been interviewed by Decca Aitkenhead for the Guardian, and said that Clegg is a “betrayal of the Liberal tradition”.

* Ed Balls campaigns to save the Post Office.

* Jackie Ashley says that Labour is “wrecking its own chances” by being “nasty”.

* Clegg warned – remember whose side you’re on…

* And The Deaily Beast on the Blair donation reaction.

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