Alastair Campbell argues that the Labour Party's electoral success required a stronger, consistent defense of its governing record against media and opposition attacks.

“I felt that given that the Tories were trashing our record, the media were trashing our record, if the Labour party wasn't defending our record, that would ultimately become a disadvantage to Ed when he went into the election.”

Ed Miliband argues that the party's failure to adequately address rising inequality and economic insecurity was a significant missed opportunity during its time in power.

“We didn't tackle inequality. Inequality basically stayed more or less the same. Now that it I was very involved in the tax credits thing which was a massive redistributive thing which was Gordon's signature policy and lifted kids out of poverty and was an absolutely great thing that we did but the c”