As energy company buckles, Miliband needs to pick more battles
Ed Miliband’s success on reforming the energy sector shows a new high-risk, high-reward strategy for him: fighting the entrenched interests others won’t touch.
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Commons to vote today on Labour’s five-point plan for jobs
While the Lords votes on the NHS reforms, Labour will use an Opposition Day Debate in the Commons to debate the economy, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
Cameron the global statesman contrasts with Miliband’s wholly domestic speech
Having been wholly omitted from Ed Miliband’s leader’s speech last week, David Cameron put foreign affairs at the front of his conference speech today.
Miliband quizzed on disability reforms, apologises for omission from speech
Ed Miliband apologised for not defending disabled people from attacks by the Tories and right-wing press in his conference speech, reports Shamik Das.
Slowly but surely, Ed’s speeches are getting better
Asher Drasner analyses Ed Miliband’s Labour party conference speech yesterday, and concludes that his style, slowly but surely, is improving.
Social housing needs a ‘New Deal’
Kevin Gulliver argues that the social housing system needs to be re-hauled under a ‘New Deal’.
Were Tories even watching the same speech as the rest of us?
As yesterday’s round-up of reactions to Ed Miliband’s speech shows, it could be interpreted in a number of ways. Some saw it as a deliberately low-content affair, others as “actually quite funny“, while Left Foot Forward’s own Ed Jacobs sawtest
Miliband’s speech: Press reaction
Ed Miliband has just finished his second speech as Labour Party leader, and the reaction from the press is mixed. Michael White from the Guardian is balanced but ultimately negative: Some good lines uttered, some false notes struck, some badtest
Miliband needs to move the argument beyond mere Tory-bashing
Ed Jacobs rounds up the reaction from the press across the devolved nations, which has focused on how the party needs to rebuild itself and regain credibility.
Nomination for most influential left-wing thinker 2010/11: Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband is changing the way the Labour Party thinks about its very purpose – its ends as well as its means. Such a profound shift makes him a candidate for left-wing thinker of the year.