Ed Miliband’s ‘Clause IV moment’: what you need to know

Ed Miliband is giving a speech tomorrow morning on ‘the biggest Labour party reforms for a generation’ to shake up the party’s relationship with the unions. It’s a ‘One Nation Politics’ speech, which shows the Labour leader thinks his ‘One Nation’ tag can even be applied to cleaning up a mess in your own party, and will contain what spinners are briefing is a ‘radical’ shake-up of the party. He will say that ‘One Nation is a country where everyone plays their part and a politics in which they can’. This politics is the ‘opposite of the politics we saw in Falkirk. Here’s your guide to what he’ll say tomorrow, and what appears to have been left out:

1. Opt-in arrangements for union members to choose whether or not to join Labour. They will no longer be automatically affiliated as part of their membership. Miliband will say:

‘I do not want any individual to be paying money to the Labour Party in affiliation fees unless they have deliberately chosen to do so.