Labour leader Ed Miliband looking like Prime Minister-designate, says Neath MP Peter Hain
NEATH MP Peter Hain believes Ed Miliband is looking "increasingly like the Prime Minister-designate" following last week's Eastleigh by-election.
In a blog for the New Statesman the former Welsh Secretary said the by-election, in which Labour's candidate John O'Farrell came a poor fourth, confirmed "that David Cameron won't win the next election".
Mr Hain said that on a "good day" Labour "could well defy the odds and win outright in 2015" and, at the very least, become the "largest single party, able to form a government". Arguing that hung Parliaments, in which no party has overall control, might become a "semi-permanent fixture" for British politics, Mr Hain said in that case "coalition needs to be done a lot better than under the Cameron-Clegg governments where it has become a byword for broken promises, betrayals and sheer incompetence".
He added that the present Labour leader had "quickly recovered" Labour's "natural vote".
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3 Comments
by williamwaun
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 10:26PM
“The bloke will never be leader, if his brother was leader, Labour would have a chance. They will never get into power under him.”
by cresswell1
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 4:48PM
“he talks some rubbish, who in there right mind would vote for labour, after the mess they left this country in. ukip for me”
by clarysage50
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 12:40PM
“...really...??!!!!!!!!!!”