A day in the race – July 12th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Tonight, all the candidates are appearing at the South East region hustings at…
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BBC News profiles the candidates: Ed Balls
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The BBC are running profiles of each of the five leadership candidates –…
Diane Abbott launches new hyper-visual website
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Diane Abbott consolidated a successful week’s campaigning last week with the launch of…
The Mandelson-Miliband drama from the other side
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Pete Hoskin has written a couple of good pieces this weekend about the…
Knives out – 8 in the morning, July 12th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Peter Mandelson’s book, launched this week, reveals that Nick Clegg told Lord…
Mandy’s intervention
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 All the weekend papers have reported on Peter Mandelson’s new book, due out…
A day in the race – July 10th
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 All five candidates were at the Southampton hustings today, and had the chance…
David Miliband’s Keir Hardie lecture — full speech
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 This evening, David Miliband has given the Keir Hardie lecture at Mountain Ash,…
Leadership candidates: Do we have a national identity?
To close our day on national identity yesterday, we’ve asked each of the leadership candidates to contribute their…
“We’ve got to have a distinct offer on community, the economy and democracy”: The David Miliband interview
David Miliband is the shadow foreign secretary and a candidate in the Labour leadership election. He met Alex…
