On the surface, there are one or two baubles to delight a Labour supporter: their party
leader has just had a second son, of course; they are pushing ahead of the Tories in a number of polls; and the
coalition will surely come under sustained and heavy attack as the cuts make themselves felt. But strip back the gloss veneer, and Labour has some agonising problems to worry about.
Chief among those problems – as I’ve written before – is their uncertain message on the economy, stretching into an uncertain policy prospectus overall. Just what do Labour stand for? Then there’s the simmering resentments between teams Ed and David, with the Balls axis looking to capitalise in between. And James identifies another in his politics column for the magazine today: that Miliband’s Labour is in danger of becoming invisible.
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