Ed Miliband doesn’t have the luxury of time. He has warned that it could take a while to propose a new programme for government; the party, he told the Labour conference, needs to “go on a journey”. It had better be a quick one, because on 20 October voters will be looking to Labour’s new leader for his response to the Conservative spending plans. If he doesn’t say something clear and positive to them, they may not look again.
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