Labour’s failure to fill the summer news vacuum has now become a news story in itself. Ed Miliband comes back from holiday to find the Sunday papers full of stories about Labour grumbling, shadow Cabinet reshuffles and the like.
But there’ll be no dramatic return by Miliband. There are no plans for big set piece speeches or a whistle-stop tour of Britain.
One reason why Miliband himself has been so quiet this summer is that conference is already dominating his, and his team’s, thoughts. As I say in the Mail on Sunday today, they view conference as crucial to their efforts to persuade the country that Miliband is Prime Ministerial. It’ll be at this conference that they’ll begin to roll out the policies on which Labour intends to fight the next election.
Miliband has an almost preternatural confidence that he’s timing his march on Downing Street right. But after Labour’s summer silence, he’s going to have up the pace at conference.
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