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By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk After today's announcement of the junior shadow ministerial positions, we now have a clear idea of Ed Miliband's team, and the way in which he sees the talents available to him, and the party - with a…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft Ed Miliband will sensibly place little weight on the 'morale boost' of Labour's first opinion poll lead for three years with ICM and the Guardian, reported in Friday's newspaper, where his party lead the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * The people of Middle England seem very relaxed with Labour's new leader. * The "New Generation" eye posts in the shadow cabinet. * Johann Hari says Ed Miliband is being hit by a "tsunami of lies". * How…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There's obviously a certain amount of comfort being taken by the left tonight as Labour moves into a two point lead in the latest Guardian/ICM poll after Ed's conference bounce. We shouldn't be too…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk The prevailing wisdom in these final days of the leadership contest is to proclaim that Ed Miliband has come from nowhere to the cusp of victory. I'm not sure that is a convincing narrative - he's on the…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk David Miliband led the pack in the leadership race from the outset until the recent YouGov poll, which suggested that there may be a chink in his otherwise impregnable armour. We will have to wait until…
By Declan Gaffney New figures in an answer to a Parliamentary Question by Karen Buck reveal a hitherto unrecognised problem with the coalition's cuts to housing benefit. While government's presentation of the cuts has been shamelessly…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Andy Burnham started off slowly in the leadership race. Taking longer than some of his rivals to pull together the required 33 MPs' nominations meant that he was behind them from the start. His campaign…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk It is almost undisputed now that Ed Balls and his team have run an excellent campaign. We said as much back in early August, but since then he's kicked on and reached an even higher gear. I'm still…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Back in August when we took our first look at how the different campaigns were unfolding, I described Diane Abbott's campaign as, "plucky, threadbare, underfunded, over-achieving and muddled". In the last…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Well that's it. The final hustings is over. The final barbs have been thrown, and the repetitions of stump speeches and key phrases have been uttered for the last time. The vast majority of Labour members…
By Barry Gardiner / @barry_gardiner Despite the failure to guarantee 40% of shadow cabinet positions for women MPs, good organisation and the proportional increase of women in the PLP at the general election could still see 50% of seats go…
