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Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph. JournalLive - North East news, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, The Journal newspaper. Darren was appointed editor of the Chronicle in September 2011, following a six-year spell as editor of the Evening Gazette in Teesside. He has held a number of senior roles on regional newspapers across England, Scotland and Wales over the last 15 years and is now editor-in-chief of Trinity Mirror North East. Scotsman.com News - Scottish news direct from Scotland. AV is the reason why Ed Miliband beat his brother.

It was he who most fully grasped how to win a contest fought using the alternative vote system: the absolute priority, he realised, was for the younger Miliband to secure second and third preferences. What mattered most were not the 34.33 per cent of party and union voters who believed fervently in Ed as Labour's best hope, and opted for him in the first round. The key was to make sure that everyone else - or at least enough of them - quite liked the younger Miliband, or even just liked him a bit, so that, by the fourth round, when Diane Abbott, Andy Burnham and Ed Balls had been eliminated, he was able to edge decisively ahead of his brother. If Wood's campaign is a model for future Labour leadership contenders, it is also a terrible warning to the rest of us. The secret to winning under AV is not to inspire, or to take risks, or to promise radical change: it is to be the least objectionable candidate.

Yet we should pause a moment before we condemn adversarialism out of hand. Culture. To-day's news, comments and reviews from The Manchester Guardian 1821 Edition. London News | London Evening Standard - London's newspaper. English news. The Independent | News | UK and Worldwide News | Newspaper.

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