Dump the Messenger (19/06/15)

Daniel Finkelstein made the same point as me the other day with this piece in The Times in which he says that the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is responsible for the recent gaffe involving his posed photograph for The Sun newspaper - not his various minders and media advisers. 

But he goes on to make a further interesting point about the antics of Tom Watson which is that if Labour loses next year's general election, the left of the party will be quite happy to dump the messenger rather than look critically at the credibility of its message to voters.