By which I mean why isn’t he cooped up inside Ed Miliband’s office, working as a strategy-comms chap? Maybe he wouldn’t want the gig but it’s a good thing for us (in both a blogging and an anti-Labour sense) that he’s still a free man. Take this latest bout of good sense, for instance:
Our nation has significant challenges – from deficit reduction to welfare policy to job growth. As an opposition we must have opinions on all of these, but lack the power to act on them. That is an exposed, vulnerable position. We already know how the Tories want to define us. They want to spend the next four years painting us as wasteful in the public services, over-generous with welfare at the price of higher taxes for working families. They want to define us as opposed to the freedom to improve your local public services. They want to make us the voice of vested interests, welfare cheats and out of touch metropolitan elites.
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