Burnham bound for Belfast
Nominations closed in the race to succeed Gordon Brown as Labour leader today, with Northern Ireland has not exactly been a central issue in the campaign, but whilst I was away on leave David's brother Ed faced a question about whether the party should stand in elections here and He argued that "how the Conservatives went about it with their interventions in Northern Ireland politics before the election was a classic example of what not to do."
On Friday is heading to Belfast to thank local Labour party members for their support. Presumably he won't be as non committal as Ed Miliband about the future direction of the party here.
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