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. Tom Watson's speech on phone hacking

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July 27th.

(Now Miliband is talking about his family. In the past he has been relatively reluctant to parade his family before the media, but when he arrived at the conference on Saturday he was photograph with his wife Justine and two young children. No 10 was watching. A day later, a picture of David Cameron with son at a football match appeared on the front page of the Daily Telegraph.)

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has just been to see Liam Byrne talking about how Labour can "win back the middle". He's sent me this.

Byrne said the government needed to be much more active and interventionist "in the way that we were beginning to pioneer towards the end" of Labour's time in office. The government should be "identifying our strengths, doing a much better job at coordinating procurement and investment". There was an "investment crisis" in the UK, and "now is the time to examine the case for a national investment bank . because we've got to begin taking action on unlocking that money".

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. Steve Richards in the Independent says Labour should stop apologising.

. MPs and delegates have launched ferocious attacks on Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

. Ivan Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, has suggested that journalists who commit misconduct should not be allowed to write for newspapers.

. Meg Hillier, the shadow energy secretary, has said that Labour will break up the energy market to allow new companies to compete with the big six energy suppliers. The text of her speech is on the Labour website.

. Lord Adonis, the Labour former transport secretary, has urged Labour to start talking to the Lib Dems about areas where they can work together.

My political heroine Barbara Castle once said: "in politics, guts is everything".

He did not say what they would be. (In the past Ed Miliband has suggested that no one should be allowed to own more than 20% of the market.)

(Does anyone know how this could possibly work? Journalism isn't a profession with entry requirements and academic demands. They let anyone it. That's why James Cameron insisted that it was a trade, not a profession.)

Chris Bryant

After two years of investigating, I can tell you how the hacking scandal happened. A newspaper out of control. Police failure. Politicians failing to act. It's the same. When [Murdoch] saw what the Sun did, the lies it invented about Liverpool fans stealing from the dead, Rupert Murdoch could be in no doubt what went on in his newspapers. Yet what did he do at the Sun or any of his other newspaper? That's right. He did nothing. They lied and cheated and broke the law. They defiled the dead and mocked the murdered did nothing and Rupert Murdoch kept the change.

Watson says phone hacking must have spread to other papers. He says that Dominic Mohan, the editor of the Sun, used to tell jokes about phone security at industry events. (That's a reference to this story that appeared in the Guardian's media diary in 2002.) Watson predicts that "it's only a matter of time" before the Sun is found in the evidence file of the convicted private investigator who hacked Millie Dowler's phone.

Watson says Murdoch's company is a company "sick with corruption and criminality from top to bottom". That much has been proved, he says.

The Murdochs and their minions have consistently and blatantly lied to our courts and our parliament. Institutional investors have a responsibility to put these things right. They need to act.

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Labour needs to learn lessons, he says. "They won't be learnt by standing on the banks of the Jordan blessing Murdoch's children," he says.

. Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting posts a chart comparing Miliband's ratings to Tony Blair's, William Hague's, Iain Duncan Smith's and Michael Howard's.

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. She said Labour should support the public rather than trade unions on the issue of strikes.

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Yvette Cooper

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