23rd August, 2010, 9:06 am

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

Mark Ferguson

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.

Mark Ferguson

Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.

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