With criticism mounting over Ed Miliband's leadership of Labour, he has decided that now is the time to perform a delicate politcal manoeuvre on the party's economic message. While the two Eds will continue to attack the government for cutting public spending "too far and too fast", they will not promise to reinstate anything that is cut before 2015. For some, this is simply a re-statement of Labour's current position. But others detect a shift towards an acceptance that public spending needs to be reigned in.
For Unite's Len McCluskey, the news was far from welcome. Not only had he not been forewarned by the Labour leadership, he was particularly angered by the shadow chancellor's statement that he supports pay restraint in the public sector. For McCluskey and his supporters, this amounted to nothing less than a return to "discredited Blairism".
In the studio to discuss all this we have a rainbow coalition spanning the whole of Labour's political spectrum. Guardian columnist Seumas Milne; Labour blogger Hopi Sen - co-author of In The Black Labour; and Rowenna Davis, a Labour councillor and author of Tangled Up in Blue, an early attempt to define "Blue Labour".
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