Labour leadership
The Blairite Candidate
I was brought up short by Simon Landau yesterday. He asked, of my column for The Independent the day before.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 4:09 pm
The Case for David Miliband
Further to my blog post about the next leader of the Labour Party last weekend, some of the attendees of the Peter Mandelson Memorial Dim Sum Lunch have given the matter more thought.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 2:56 pm
And the next leader of the Labour Party is …
The Peter Mandelson Memorial Dim Sum Lunch took place a little late this year. This was a gathering that started on 23 December 1998, when Mandelson first resigned from the Cabinet. By coincidence, the same group of my friends were lunching just after Christmas two years later, on 24 January 2001, when Mandelson resigned again.
The [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 2 February 2013 at 9:23 pm
Unstable Chemistry?
Nice exchange between Andrew Marr and Ed Balls this morning:
ANDREW MARR:
Some people are worried that there is going to be a kind of mimicry of the tensions between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in the old days; that there is something in the chemistry between the two of you that is not entirely stable?
ED BALLS:
Who’s [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 9 September 2012 at 2:30 pm
The TB-GBs Mark II, Part II
My column for The Independent on Sunday on the relationship between Labour leader and Shadow Chancellor is on the new Indy Voices part of the website. This blog will become part of this brave new world shortly, so “bear with”, as Miranda’s mother says, as we try to improve the customer experience.
By way of footnotes [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 9 September 2012 at 11:41 am
David Miliband could open Labour lead
Our ComRes opinion poll in The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror tomorrow suggests that Labour would do better if David Miliband were leader — although the difference is only three points.
The normal voting intentions (how would you vote if there were a general election tomorrow) are:
Conservative 38% +2
Labour 38% [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 21 January 2012 at 7:29 pm
(Still) “the best Labour leader”
The YouGov poll for The Sunday Times (pdf) has findings on which of five MPs people think would “make the best Labour leader”:
David Miliband 21%
Alistair Darling 9%
Ed Miliband 7%
Ed Balls 6%
Yvette Cooper 4%
None of them would be any good 32%
Don’t know 21%
Yes, well. Apart from the obvious, this poll reminds us again of one of [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 15 January 2012 at 7:28 pm
Ed Miliband sinks below Nick Clegg in latest poll
Some remarkable opinion poll numbers in today’s YouGov poll, which are not reported by The Sunday Times, apart from one line in Martin Ivens’s column, in which he says (pay wall):
Our YouGov poll today puts the opposition just ahead of the Conservatives, but more people think even the luckless Nick Clegg is doing better than [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 8 January 2012 at 1:50 pm
The Labour Leadership Question
Young Dan Hodges is coming along nicely. He writes with such articulate dismissiveness against the Labour leader that he makes me seem like an Ed Miliband supporter. His analysis of the implications of Miliband’s “calamitous” performance at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday is here.
Unfortunately, with the rashness of youth, Hodges (right) makes a few errors. [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 16 December 2011 at 7:48 am
Ed Balls on Yvette and the leadership
Never mind crying over Antiques Roadshow, this is the bit from Ed Balls’s interview with Total Politics that I found interesting:
It’s all sewn up, then – Balls won’t stand for the leadership and he’d like to see the shadow home secretary become the boss instead. Well, not quite. “That’s a bit of a caricature,” Balls says. [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 12:29 pm
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