THE TELEGRAPH: Ed Miliband is expected to announce on Saturday that he will challenge his older brother, David, for the leadership of the Labour Party.
The shadow energy secretary, an ally of Gordon Brown, is thought to be planning to use a speech at a conference organised by the Fabian Society to set out his stall – and launch an attack on the former government's failure to reform the banking sector.
He will argue that Labour supporters should be proud of the party's achievements under Mr Brown, and will urge them not to react to the election loss by drifting to the Right on issues such as crime and immigration.
But, he will say, the party needs to be honest about why it fell from power, by having a "serious debate" about its values and reconnecting with those who were put off by issues such as the expenses scandal and the decision to go to war in Iraq.
And, in words that will be interpreted as an attack on the former prime minister and Lord Mandelson, the former business secretary, he will argue that Labour lost its "radical edge" by allowing bankers' pay to spiral.
"We lost touch with the lives of the people we represent," he will say. "We lost touch with the progressive ideals that characterised the earlier years of the government." >>> Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent | Friday, May 14, 2010
