Unless one of Ed Miliband’s New Year’s resolutions was to ignore absolutely everything going on around him, I expect the Labour leader will be in a particularly glum mood this morning. And it’s not just that Maurice Glasman article — which has inspired the headline ‘Miliband’s former guru says he has “no strategy”’ on the front of today’s Guardian — either. It’s the, erm, questionable tweets from one of Miliband’s shadow ministerial team. It’s the LabourList poll that finds scant support, and much disapproval, for his leadership. It’s that John Rentoul column suggesting Yvette Cooper for the throne. It’s the Tory minister who said to Iain Martin that ‘Keeping Ed Miliband in his job must be one of our biggest priorities this year.’ It’s the establishment, by Guido, of a mocking ‘Don’t Unseat Ed Miliband Association’. In these and a hundred other ways, the tidal swell of disgruntlement with Miliband, already high before Christmas, is turning into a flood.
To my mind, all this is the culmination of problems that have existed since the very moment that Miliband became Labour leader.
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