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| Hearty congratulations to Ed Miliband |
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| Written by Gordon Prentice | |||
| Saturday, 25 September 2010 16:48 | |||
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High drama in Manchester as Ed Miliband pips his brother at the post. The bookies were right after all. I am following events on the BBC website, 3,000 miles away in Canada. The tension is something else. The laptop is red hot. My pen is scribbling down the percentages. Now Ann Black’s voice is muted (aaaaargh!) and I am forced to listen to Nick Robinson who tells me David Milliband has won. Oops! I don’t think so. He is waffling on and on and on... Now I am shouting at the BBC to give me back Ann Black! Anyway…. Well done Ed and well done to all the others who got through this gruelling contest without tearing lumps out of each other. A new generation has taken over and, with it, an end to the feuds, cronyism and patronage that so disfigured the Blair Brown years. I am sure Ed will be as good as his word and run a leadership that is open, inclusive and collegiate. This is the new politics that I want to see. I notice the commentators immediately latch on to the fact that Ed trailed David in the MPs section of the electoral college. This will soon be forgotten. David Cameron won the leadership of the Conservatives without the backing of the majority of Conservative MPs. Who remembers that now? (other than political anoraks). Labour MPs will want to row in behind the new leader and give him all the support he needs. 
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| Last Updated on Monday, 27 September 2010 22:55 |