Tristram Hunt out of Labour leadership race
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has said he will not be standing for the Labour leadership and has given his backing to the Blairite favourite, Liz Kendall.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has said he will not be standing for the Labour leadership and has given his backing to the Blairite favourite, Liz Kendall.
The Miliband pipped to the post for the leadership of the Labour Party has savaged his brother's failed bid for national power. David Miliband said Ed's vision lacked ambition and aspiration. He said his brother - like Gordon Brown before him - had drifted back to Labour's pre-Blair days.
Former Treasury minister admits he had been "burnt with the shame of it" every day since he left the note for his Lib Dem successor in 2010.
Writing in the Observer the former leader said the party had to show it stands for "ambition and aspiration" as well as compassion and care.
Former Cabinet minister Lord Hutton wants the leadership role to be given to one of the party's up-and-coming members of parliament.