The shape of Miliband's Labour
David Osler, author of the 2002 study Labour Party plc , talked to Solidarity about prospects in the Labour Party. Q. According to Ed Miliband on 27 November, 43,000 people have joined (or rejoined) the Labour Party since the general election in May 2010. Do you have any assessment of what this little surge represents, and what its effects are likely to be? A. It’s dangerous to generalise from purely local experience, but the new recruits I have met have tended to be nice concerned thirty-something professionals who have not previously been members of any political party. Superficially they...