Ed Miliband is best when he is making the political weather, and he might just find that a strong line on rail nationalisation resonates with disgruntled voters
Its Labours national policy forum this weekend, in Milton Keynes. Not obviously something to set the heart racing, more the apogee of political managerialism. The kind of place where the dead hand of a cautious leadership might very easily reach out and chill all the ambition out of the partys programme for government.
The Labour leadership seems paralysed by the contest between what the party wants and what the voter will support. It is locked in by such detailed analysis of the options that blinking appears overly risky.
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