No left turn says David Miliband: 8 in the morning – September 3rd

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* David Miliband tells the Sun that Labour can’t move leftwards if we want to win.

* David has topped a YouGov poll commissioned by his own campaign.

* In the FT, Martin Wolf says the Ed Balls critique is correct…

* Simon Jenkins says that by 1997, Blair’s work was already done.

* In the Telegraph, Jeff Randall says Blair has rewritten history.

* The economist says the Blair book provides important lessons for his successors.

* The FT, meanwhile, says the book provides lessons for the left.

* And the Chris Bryant MP on the police, dirty politics, and phone hacking…

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