One immediate question posed by Tom Watson’s resignation is that of who will run Labour’s general election campaign. The frontrunner to fill the vacancy – Watson had been the party’s campaign co-ordinator since October 2011 – is Douglas Alexander.
Alexander, currently shadow foreign secretary, ran the 2010 campaign and is admired by MPs for his intellect and strategic nous. As a figure from the “Blairite” wing of the party, who ran David Miliband’s leadership campaign, his appointment would also reassure those concerned that party has drifted too far to the left since 2010.
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