Tessa Jowell has warned that attacks on Ed Milliband from inside the Labour party are creating an impression of “toxic disunity”. In a piece for the Observer today she writes that Labour’s “so-called summer crisis” had been helped a great deal by Labour’s own members, too open in attacking their leader. These were people, she says, “who should know better”, as “publicly offered criticism is only ever destructive”. It remains to be seen whether Jowell’s own publicly offered criticism will do the trick. She writes:
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