Future Labour leaders are like buses, sometimes you wait for ages without seeing one and all of a sudden three come at once.
This was the experience for the audience gathered in London on 3 November for a debate about the future of the Labour Party. Its doom-laden title was “After New Labour”. The speakers included Harriet Harman, who won the party’s deputy leadership election last year. Close friends have been urging her not to stand in the event of a vacancy, but she is still riding high in the betting to replace Gordon Brown with odds of 10-3. (Only David Miliband is better placed according to the bookies.)
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