My column in the magazine this week is on the subject of the Labour leadership election and the “operation”, both inside and outside the party, to target the man with the momentum, Ed Miliband, and portray him as a wild-eyed, left-wing extremist — a “Bennite”, a throwback to the 1980s. (Incidentally, the proud Labour “rightist” and Ed M supporter Luke Akehurst has a rather interesting rebuttal to this ludicrous charge on his blog.)
The next Labour leader will be called Miliband
The first proper poll of Labour members confirms that this is a two-horse race.