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'Leave New Labour behind', says Ed Miliband
SOUTH Yorkshire MP Ed Miliband has called for his party to "move on from the New Labour establishment" after the publication of Tony Blair's candid memoirs.
The Doncaster North MP and Labour leadership hopeful dismissed the former Prime Minister's call that the party has to embrace New Labour ideals again.
He said: "I really think we've got to move on from the politicians of a previous generation.
"We honour the contribution that they have made to our country and our party, but we don't live in the past. It's only by moving on that Labour can reconnect with people."
Mr Blair has not backed a candidate in the Labour leadership contest but is widely believed to favour Ed Miliband's older brother David, who was one of his main policy advisers after the 1997 General Election.
Asked whom he would back, Mr Blair said: "It may be fairly obvious, and I'm not saying it isn't."
Michael Dugher, the MP for Barnsley East, said it was "slightly unkind and unfair" for Mr Blair to brand Gordon Brown in the book as a "strange guy" who lacked emotional intelligence.
Mr Dugher, who worked in Downing Street as an aide to the Prime Minister, said: "I worked very closely with Gordon, I saw him with my own children and with my wife, and he could be enormously emotional and friendly and engaging in a quite natural way.
"I always thought he struggled to do that in front of a camera.
He added: " I think Tony Blair was a much better actor than Gordon Brown."
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