No paper has been more critical of Ed Miliband than The Times. So it is in some ways not a surprise that the paper’s leader column today declares that he has until Labour conference to save his leadership.
But this ultimatum stokes the sense of drama created by the combination of the Balls’ leaks and the publication of the speech that David Miliband would have given if he had won the leadership. Expect to hear David Cameron quoting from both these sets of documents at PMQs regularly over the next few weeks.
The challenge now for Ed Miliband is to make lemonade out of these lemons. He needs to seize the attention that is currently focused on Labour, as one Labour person joked to me yesterday they haven’t had this much press in months, to tell people what he’s for. Authenticity about who he is and honesty about what he believes are Ed Miliband’s best hopes.
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