Published: May 14th 2010 - at 8:13 pmExclusive: Ed to launch leadership bid this week
Ed Miliband is launching his leadership bid for the Labour party leadership next week, perhaps as early as Monday morning, sources have told me.
The former cabinet minister will do a round of local interviews to launch his bid in stark contrast to his brother David Miliband’s launch in Westminster. The latter move was described by Alex Smith at LabourList as possible “strategic error“.
Ed Miliband will be keynote speaker at the Fabian conference tomorrow in London.
A group of supporters are planning a rally before the conference starts to persuade him to throw his hat in the ring.
That is now a forgone conclusion. The Sun today speculated he would launching sometime next week.
Supporters have already set up a website advocating for him.
But Labour MP Tom Watson wrote on Liberal Conspiracy this week that the party would be better off having a slow leader contest.
Update: There seems to be some confusion over names. It now looks like Ed Miliband may not go as early as Monday. But it is expected he will put his hat into the ring early next week.
David Miliband will launch his campaign officially on Monday and do local media interviews. It is now thought that brother Ed won’t want to clash with that deliberately.
Update 2 The confusion was over when exactly the campaign would be launched. But as confirmed by various media outlets now, Ed Miliband will run for Labour leadership. Remember where you heard it first.
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To quote Heseltine: “Who cares?”
Neither Miliband is “progressive”, unless that word has become so meaningless that yet another visionless Labour apparatchnik can be considered progressive.
He isn’t even on the left or centre left of the party!
Eh? Didn’t David Miliband officially launch his bid the other day by saying he’s going to run to TV cameras? He can’t just keep launching until everyone is happy with his er launches! 
@1 blanco,
so now you quote Heseltine the oracle. Good good…Give it one year and the Great Merger will take place.
Leon, that was just the announcement. He hasn’t “officially” launched it yet. Whatever that means.
“David Miliband will launch his campaign officially on Monday and do local media interviews. It is now thought that brother Ed won’t want to clash with that deliberately.”
Would he have avoided that clash if he wasn’t his little brother?
Two brothers (who don’t personally hate each other) standing against each other certainly does create an interesting situation.
If the going gets tough, will David sit on Ed’s head, and will Ed go crying off to Mum?
“If the going gets tough . . ”
I suspect this prospective fraternal contest has far more to do with crowding out other potential participants by appearing to cover the virtual waterfront of relevant marketing factors: Blairite v Brownite, less v more trade union friendly, internationalist v greenish perspectives etc.
Remember, both these guys are Oxford PPE graduates who have likely had more than incidental exposure to sophisticated business economics and games theory.
Did anyone else notice that the BBC website, earlier today, had a particularly unflattering picture of EM grimacing strangely? They’ve now changed it for a more normal image. The picture of DM is also rather unflattering – he’s covering his mouth and narrowing his eyes – whereas most images of him available online are fine – apart from the banana one, obviously!
Oh no, Sarah, quick! Call OfCom! Tory bias!
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