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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk BBC News are profiling all of the Labour leadership candidates this week. Following on from Ed Balls and Andy Burnham is David Miliband, who was interviewed today. The most striking element of the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Peter Mandelson's latest revelations are that Blair thought Brown "beyond redemption". * Alastair Campbell tells Mandelson his memory is "playing tricks" - and offers to show him his own diaries. * Ed…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk The leadership race has been a little overshadowed so far this week by the early revelations from Peter Mandelson's autobiography, but there's still plenty of life in the contest - and the Labour Party…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Tuesday brings the second BBC profile of a leadership candidate - and today it's Andy Burnham. A different candidate will be profiled each day this week. Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, Burnham talked about…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Peter Mandelson reveals that Gordon Brown would have quit within a year if Labour won power. * Gary Younge says that New Labour era memoirs are the history of "little men". * Ministers decribed the party…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Today the first financial declarations of the campaign were made - and showed one candidate in a commanding lead. Meanwhile all of the candidates were asked for their opinions on public sector pensions…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Andy Burnham has accused rivals of smears over rumours he is set to quit the race. * David Cameron will soon need to eat his words on employment, says David Blanchflower. * John Prescott defines a…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Today the candidates were down on the south coast in Bournemouth for the LGA Labour group hustings, yet the day hasn't been dominated by local government issues as you might expect. There have been…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Speaking to Radio 4 this afternoon, former defence minister Geoff Hoon warned the government against setting artificial targets for withdrawal from Afghanistan. Hoon said: "There's nothing wrong with…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk I wasn't living in London at the time of the 7/7 attacks, but I remember the waves of panic that spread throughout the country as the enormity of that day became clear. I remember the mad panic to call…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Over on Political Betting, Mike Smithson has suggested that the reason the polling for the general election was so inaccurate was a "shy Labour" phenomenon. In other words people were ashamed to admit they…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * The Wall Street Journal has labelled the coalition the first "Tea Party government", after the similarities to the US movement. * A "new breed" of activist is fuelling the surge in Labour Party…
