Congratulations Ed

The saying goes that all good things must come to an end, and while one might be hard pressed to say its been riveting from start to finish, the Labour leadership battle has finally been settled. It’s tempting to offer congratulations to all five Labour leadership contenders for having made it.

But special plaudits to Ed Miliband for emerging victorious; he squeaked victory by the thinnest of margins, and the look on David’s face must have made the months of hard work worthwhile.

Plain Thinking hopes his election will galvanise Labour’s scrutiny of the Coalition’s policies, however we reserve our judgement until Ed has had the chance to tell us what his leadership will be all about, starting in his keynote speech to Conference on Tuesday.