A blog post at the Economist web-site has an interesting take on Ed Miliband's political direction for the Labour Party; it notes that if successful in the 2015 election a Labour government would have a very tight limit on government spending.
Ed Miliband's policy outline seems to be (if the Economist is right) to be more power devolved to cities and Mayors, with less concentrated at Westminster. This is despite the failure of the Coalition's mayoral referendum policy in 2012.
The other theme of the Miliband policy outline seems to be a more interventionist industrial policy (i.e. control of big business) similar to the headline-grabbing proposal to limit the prices that the energy companies can charge.
In the current economic climate the public seem to be more in favour of this kind of thing than they were in previous years.
On another note, some wag at Labour party HQ has taken inspiration from Facebook's "look back" feature, and done one for David Cameron and the coalition government:
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