One of the small surprises of the Labour leadership contest to date has been Douglas Alexander’s decision to back David, not Ed Miliband. Alexander has known both brothers for a long time but is thought to be much closer to the younger Miliband, as my colleague James Macintyre described in a piece published in the New Statesman back in March.
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