*The Centre Left Grassroots Alliance for NEC elections set up by an agreement between Labour Reform and the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy in the late 1990s, is still operating the term ‘centre left’ has to be avoided to avoid confusion.

** Real Politik, A History by John Bew. Bew is a contributing editor to the New Statesman. Alexander was promoted to government by both Blair and Brown and was key to Miliband’s election failure, personally defeated by the youngest SNP MP in the SNP wipeout. Alexander does not mention Labour at any point in the review. Alexander is currently Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard.