David Miliband quit British politics this week after deciding that his presence was becoming a "distraction" to the Labour party. He'll become head of an NGO in New York two and a half years after failing to beat his brother to the Labour leadership. His loss to the opposition benches moved some to observe that the Blairite 'New Labour' project was finally at an end.
In the studio with Hugh Muir this week to discuss this: the Observer's political editor Toby Helm; the New Statesman's political editor Rafael Behr; and the political journalist Andrew Gimson.
Also this week: the crackdown on welfare claimants continues. Labour MPs abstain on the controversial Jobseekers bill and the government denies that it is setting targets for sanctioning people out of work. Meanwhile US-style "food stamps" will be brought in to some areas instead of crisis loans.
And what on earth is going on at the Department of Energy and Climate Change? Another minister is shuffled sideways - this time John Hayes makes way for fellow climate change 'sceptic' Michael Fallon.
Plus: the BBC devoted an hour of prime time television to a somewhat sympathetic documentary of Boris Johnson this week, but only after he'd been savaged by their own Eddie Mair. Is Johnson really next in line to the Tory throne? And would he be any good as an opposition leader if that is to be his lot?
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