Ed Miliband was doing the interview rounds today, and CoffeeHouses may be interested in the below – an edited version of his exchange with Nicky Campbell on Five Live.
NC: Is the problem union power? MPs and the constituencies clearly voted for your brother, Alan Johnson’s favourite candidate. He was a clear winner in those two parts of the party, and many people say union influence has to be limited. Now this is a real test of your guts, isn’t it? Is it the right thing to do?
EM: I see it a different way, Nicky, to be honest. I see that politics as a whole, in every party, is massively disconnected from people up and down this country. And what we’re really talking about, when we talk about the internal affairs of the Labour Party in the context that you’re talking about it, is the union levy payers. These are people who pay a political levy to support the Labour Party.
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