Shortly before the last election a group of Labour MPs approached Ed Miliband to ask him what he would do if he lost. They suggested he could provide stability by staying on as leader for a while, as Michael Howard had done, and that his last duty should be to oversee an inquiry into what went wrong at the general election.
Isabel Hardman
Labour’s lost thinker
Ed Miliband’s policy chief talks about why Labour lost and the decline of the Blairites
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