Labour leader Ed Miliband conjured up his deceased Marxist dad Ralph yet again as he sought to place a rosy glow around his attack on the union link.
“My dad only spoke once at a Labour conference in 1955,” said Mr Miliband.
He had said in that speech nearly 60 years ago that being part of the Labour Party was being part of “a great adventure.”
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership


