20 Labour MPs willing to challenge Miliband

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4. I can't think of any likely person who'd be any better

While I don't think Miliband (or Alan Johnson!) is an outstanding leader, I think he's better than many other possibilities, and that the media would be gunning for any Labour leader and trying to make them look bad.

Also: while the American mid-term elections were probably doomed to go badly in any case, a number of people think that the tendency of Democratic politicians to just accept the Republican/media view of Obama, and to distance themselves from him, probably made the results worse. The Labour party should not do the equivalent.