Today’s press will not have made happy reading for Ed Miliband and his supporters.
Alan Johnson’s comments to The Times about the need to change the way
Labour elects its leader has revived the debate about the legitimacy of Ed Miliband’s victory. Meanwhile in the New Statesman there’s a piece setting out the internal tensions within
the party.
Intriguingly, Lisa Tremble, who was David Miliband’s press chief during his leadership campaign, has put what could be considered a rather provocative quote on the record. She tells the magazine, ‘David’s rediscovered his excitement in politics…He’s looking forward to the new challenges. He’s not going anywhere.’
As I say in the new issue of The Spectator (subscribers click here; or you can subscribe now direct or for just £1 an issue), Ed Miliband’s problem is that it is very hard for Labour to get noticed at the moment.
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