Current affairs weekly The New Statesman has nailed its colours to the mast in the Labour leadership contest and endorsed the younger of the two Miliband brothers, Ed, in the race.

This week’s leader column says that Miliband “has been most prepared to challenge New Labour orthodoxies, to use a different kind of language”.

It states: “He advocates a Labour agenda that is confident, forceful and empowering, committed to greater freedom, social justice and, above all else, reducing inequality…