If David Blunkett fancies being a kindly older mentor for the current Labour shadow cabinet, perhaps he could start by getting them all on television a little more, if only to say how great they think Ed Miliband is as party leader. As the summer has worn on and the Labour leader’s troubles have thickened like a sauce, the shadow cabinet seems to have evaporated, according to this analysis of the last time any of them pitched up on the airwaves:
· Maria Eagle appeared on BBC News (13 August 2013)
· Caroline Flint appeared on Daybreak (9 August 2013).
· Owen Smith appeared on the Today Programme (7 August 2013)
· Sadiq Khan appeared on The World at One (1 August 2013) and the Andrew Marr Show (28 July 2013).
· Andy Burnham appeared on BBC News (29 July).
· Emily Thornberry appeared on Boulton & Co (26 July).
· Ed Balls appeared on BBC News (25 July).
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