Blog posts tagged "Labour leadership"

September 29, 2010 5:41 pm 5 Comments

David Miliband has quit the front bench but will remain as an MP, while his brother Ed Miliband, the new Labour leader, begins to recruit his new cabinet, as Gary Gibbon blogs.

September 28, 2010 4:17 pm 7 Comments

Political editor Gary Gibbon's verdict on Ed Miliband's first speech as leader of the Labour party: he didn't sink, he didn't fly, but he may have changed some opinions.

September 25, 2010 6:40 pm No Comments

I've just had a look at the turnout for the big three trade unions that backed him in the summer - the GMB, Unite and Unison. If you average the three together you get a collective turnout of 8.3 per cent in these three unions, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.

September 8, 2010 4:37 pm 5 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on how Gordon Brown has asked to say some words to the Labour party conference in Manchester before the result of his successor is announced.

July 15, 2010 3:23 pm 5 Comments

Ed Miliband has got the nomination of the GMB.

June 9, 2010 5:29 pm 5 Comments

On the occasions when David Miliband was tempted to topple Gordon Brown it was, Gary Gibbon blogs, his brother Ed who "begged and begged and begged" him not to try to topple Gordon Brown and to wait for a vacancy.

May 18, 2010 11:43 am 11 Comments

Labour's NEC has agreed a long contest, with the leader being crowned at the party's conference in September, and a spending cap of £150,000.

May 11, 2010 2:51 pm 3 Comments

Andy Burnham, like David Blunkett, John Reid and Tom Harris, has spoken out against a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition.

January 11, 2010 6:34 pm 1 Comment

It’s a well-attended PLP meeting – MPs are struggling to get into the committee room. Gordon Brown is up first. His trio of election strategists – Peter Mandelson, Douglas Alexander and Harriet Harman – then speak. Charles Clarke has gone in to take his medicine.

4:09 pm 3 Comments

(UPDATED: now with video of Ed Balls interview.) To the QE2 centre in Westminster where Gordon Brown sat on a platform flanked by Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson, a lecturn either side of them. I thought the PM might be about to chair a debate between the two consorts, but alas not. It was an international education conference (which [...]