The timing could hardly have been more resonant. On the day that Tony Blair is paraded,
once again, in front of the Iraq Inquiry, Team Brown is firmly back in charge of the Labour party. For, I’m sure you’ve noticed CoffeeHousers, three of the four great shadow offices of state are
occupied by former members of the Brown coterie: Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper. The fourth belongs to someone who doesn’t sit easily in either half of the TB-GB divide: Douglas Alexander.
The question, of course, is what this means for Labour’s economic policy. And the answer according to Miliband is “nothing much”. The Labour leader has been keen to stress that his party’s fiscal plans remain largely unchanged by Balls’ ascension. The pair are said (£) to have shared a “lengthy late-night conversation” in which which they “squared their difference over the deficit”.
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