Telegraph
"...Now Labour is so diminished and divided that its leadership contest is fought between two real brothers. There is nothing metaphorical about the family feud between David and Ed Miliband. Of course, both are richly entitled to stand for the top job. But their inability to decide which of them should do so makes their party look both ridiculous and pitifully small, like a top bunk argued over by two boys. Blair and Brown had the Granita deal. David and Ed have dragged the Labour Party into the family sandpit: not really what Keir Hardie had in mind.
All of which is good news for a coalition that needs all the help it can get in its first weeks. “This is going to be hard and difficult work,” said the newly appointed PM on the threshold of Number 10 last Tuesday. “A coalition will throw up all sorts of challenges.” .....Those around Brown who dared to look ahead to a life in Opposition always assumed that they would have this on their side. They would be able to caricature the new Government’s policies as Bullingdonomics: men with trust funds taking money away from people with nothing. The inclusion of Lib Dems at the highest levels of the coalition has killed off this strategy at a stroke. It has made it all but impossible to dismiss the Government’s plan for structural deficit reduction as class-driven or just another’s rich man’s con. And that is of the greatest importance to the country as well as the prospects of this particular inter‑party alliance. "
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