Red Ed Cracks the Whip

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Red Ed Cracks the Whip

Prior to Saturday most of the Parliamentary Labour party were formulating Shadow Cabinet predictions around a David win. Hitherto confident David supporters are now frantic about their futures. At this point zealous Labour spinners and Red Ed defenders will be itching to point out that the Shadow Cabinet is elected independently of the leadership however it seems that is not strictly true. One veteran Labour MP recently describe the process to Guido:

“Anyone who’s remotely ambitious and fancies themselves either a decent shadow cabinet portfolio or junior shadow ministerial role is paid a visit by one of the whips – whereby they hand over their ballot and the whip fills it out for them.”

No wonder ruthless Red Ed was so keen to get his Chief Whip in place immediately.

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Gordon Brown Furious Over Red Ed’s Attack – Mail
Planet Red Ed – The Sun
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Dave Doesn’t Need to Make Speech of His Life – Iain Martin
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Watch Warsi – Jerry Hayes
The Chief Whip Mystery – Rentoul
Is Hague Worse than Dave? – James Delingpole
Thrifty Eric on the Rampage Again – FT
BBC Politics Team Pondering Picket – Mail
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