To be honest Justin, the entire political scribbleati have been drooling over this – I had the feeling Michael Crick on Newsnight really wanted Labour to lose Glasgow East because the ’story’ would keep on rolling, not least because banging on about ‘Gordon Brown’s leadership’ is easier than analysing the ideological and intellectual void at the heart of New Labour that has got them into this mess.

That aside, you’re on the money re. the ‘content ‘ of Milliband’s article. Put it this way: If Blears or McNulty had written it, would it have been any different?