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Mandelson warns party against U-turn: 8 in the morning – August 30th

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* Mandelson warns against trying to create a pre-New Labour Party, in what many have suggested is a criticism of Ed Miliband.

* Ed Miliband tells The Sun that he thinks he’s going to win.

* He has also tried to carve out differences between him and his brother in an interview with the Independent.

* Tony Blair is expected to throw publically throw his support behind David Miliband this week.

* Mary-Ann Seighart on Labour’s “middle class prize”.

* In the FT, John Lloyd writes on the subject of Labour leaving the “comfort zone”.

* Andy Burnham tells the Lib Dems that they hold the key to the future of the NHS.

* And the Chagos Islanders have made an appeal to the Labour leadership candidates…

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