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By Rob Marchant Well, we're now starting to see more of how the opposition is going to shape up over the next few years. The jury's still out - but there are some slightly worrying signs. On the positive side, Ed's smart enough to realise…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - Animal Farm, George Orwell The closing line of Orwell's…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk 12.30: Ed Miliband seemed to have the upper hand this week - he led off with statesmanlike questions over Yemen, but that meant that he needed to move onto another topic later on. He moved quickly past…
By Hopi Sen / @hopisen One of the few public highlights of my career as a bag carrier was being dubbed a "No-neck Blairite relic" by Quentin Letts at the launch of Gordon Brown's leadership campaign. So I don't mind a bit of abuse. Politics…
By Toby Flux The difficulty Ed Miliband is likely to face trying to drag Labour in a new direction was ably highlighted by John Rentoul's IoS column yesterday. The bitterest of Blairites, Mr Rentoul argues that Ed Miliband has consistently…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Labour "must win the Scottish Parliament elections". * Scotland facing a "doorstep election". * Ed Miliband brands SNP "government of broken promises". * Left Foot Forward on the "revolving door" between…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk 14.02: Some inside events this afternoon show that Labour's attack operation is now getting slicker and stronger. Seizing on Ed Miliband's questioning of Cameron on housing benefit during PMQs, I…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Tonight Labour leads a Populus poll for the first time since 2007 (38/37/16), but the majority of the day's events were focussed on the CBI conference in central London at which both Ed Miliband and the…
Ed Miliband spoke to the CBI this morning, and warned that Britain is "sleepwalking" towards the risks that brought about the recession. You can read the full speech below: Check against delivery "It is a privilege to have the opportunity…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Ed Miliband warns that Britain is "sleepwalking" back towards the risks that brought about the recession. * Housing benefit changes constitute a "purge of the poor" argues the Mirror. * The Independent…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk 12.32: A now for the main event - join us for our livechat of the Comprehensive Spending Review. 12.30: A much more comfortable and confident performance from Cameron today after last week's poor showing…
Last week Ed Miliband held a Q&A session with readers of the Sheffield Star, in which he discussed graduate tax, child benefit, spending cuts, Foregemasters, MPs expenses and his brother David.
