Applications for Labour’s General Secretary closed today and an NEC officers panel will meet tomorrow to decide the long list of candidates whom they will interview on or before 11 July. The full NEC will make the final decision on 19 July after interviewing a short list. The leading runners remain as we predicted some weeks ago, led by the Blairite-favoured candidate, Chris Lennie. However, even if he wins, it looks like it might take some shenanigans to deliver the job. Continue reading
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Will Ed hand the party back to the ÜberBlairites?
It’s eight months since Ed Miliband was elected promising change. Eight months that have seen more promise but precious little change. The party was promised a new voice, and maybe it will still be allowed a little one, but Liam Byrne’s policy review looks set to resurrect much of the old Blairite mantra before that voice is heard. Now it seems, in what would be Ed’s most serious failing to date, the party general secretaryship could be handed to an experienced Blairite hatchet man. Continue reading
