Ed Miliband has done an interview with Paul Waugh in the House magazine: there are a few interesting nuggets.
The Labour leader has dismissed the idea of a new Royal yacht, at least with any public money. He says that the “welfare state is too inadequate in some parts” – such as child care, elderly care and social care.
Miliband meanwhile plays down the idea of any big conflict with the unions, saying that he thinks the moment will pass and there probably won’t be any “big” disafiliations: “Labour party leaders and trade union leaders go through their watershed moments quite often it seems to me.”
Jim Pickard
Kiran Stacey