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'Blairite' is a lazy term signifying only personal relationships, but the canon of 'Blairism' can be found and understood in A Journey. Paul Richards reads the memoir and urges the new leader to read it all and draw lessons on modernisation for Labour.

Alex Salmond believes that independence will be a ‘major, perhaps dominating, issue' in the run up to the election in May. Initially this appears a peculiar stance for him to take, given that support for independence in Scotland is currently sitting at less than a third.

NEC candidate Peter Wheeler on the justified long election campaign, being ready in case the ConDems collapse, and why we must avoid Texas Republican style boundary fixing

A new approach for young adults would signal a fresh start for Labour on crime and justice

I believe London is the greatest city in the world. I want the honour of being its first woman mayor because it could be so much more: a greater place to live, work and bring up a family.

I always know summer is drawing to an end when I see the same old A level and GCSE stories in the headlines. Articles start with ‘record results for GCSE students' and end by chastising the ‘dumbing down' of exams.

It is depressing but true that for all the hustings, speeches, manifestos, endorsements, mailings and phone calls, the Labour leadership contest has been less interesting to the public than a woman putting a cat into a wheelie bin.

The 1980s are over. Nobody wants to go back there. But so are the 1990s. And what worked then for Labour won’t work now. That is our clear conviction and why we are backing Ed Miliband as the leadership contender who most understands the scale of the change the Party needs to undertake to win again.

David Miliband has demonstrated an appeal which crosses the party and reaches beyond it. Labour should elect him leader

Despite being asked five times, Treasury Secretary Mark Hoban could not tell yesterday morning's Today programme that the Coalition did gender, race or disability impact assessments of its abysmally regressive and anti-family budget, though Labour's Equality law requires it to do all three.

Kind words from Theresa May will not disguise the damage that ConDem cuts will cause to some of the most vulnerable people in society, victims of domestic violence.

On a turnout of 27 per cent of those people balloted, David Miliband won his second "primary style" leadership election today in Edinburgh East