Labour’s reshuffle is the best thing Ed Miliband has done since he became leader.
I say this mainly because I am feeling very smug because I have been writing that the Labour Party should skip a generation for some time.
I wrote (slightly too admiringly) about Chuka Umunna’s rising star in January 2009 when he was still a not-so-humble lawyer and Westminister hopeful. Umunna was arguing that the party should get more radical long before it became fashionable in Labour circles.
Then in September 2009 I wrote (rather pompously) in the pages of The Spectator that it was time to hand over to the next generation. At the time Ed Miliband took me to task for saying that his generation should be passed over.
At the time I tipped Stella Creasy and Rushanara Ali over Mary Creagh, Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall, but I feel I am vindicated in principle by Miliband’s decisions today.
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