Ed Miliband’s stock is rising because he’s a rare commodity in Labour these days: a thinker | Gaby Hinsliff

The party seems to have woken up to its need for an old-style intellectual heavyweight to counter the vacuousness of recent years Nature famously abhors a vacuum. So when Morgan McSweeney departed government, leaving a hole where much of Keir Starmer’s thinking used to be, it was always going to be filled eventually. And increasingly, that filling looks Ed Miliband-shaped. The energy secretary’s influence has visibly grown in recent weeks, and not just because of a spiralling energy crisis in...

By Gaby Hinsliff