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Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says this must be "a moment of change" for the party, after Sir Keir Starmer said he would not "walk away" in response to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar's call for him to resign. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I was surprised that Anas said what he said, but I think what happened yesterday was that Labour MPs and the party looked over the precipice and thought,
00:09you know, do we want to go down the road of the Tories when they were in power, chaotic, disorderly leadership contests,
00:15or do we want to stick with the man who was elected 18 months ago, Keir Starmer, and to fulfil his mandate?
00:22And we decided, in my view, absolutely rightly to do that, to focus on the country, not on turning inwards on ourselves.
00:30But this has got to be a moment of change. Peter Maddison should never have been appointed because it undermined our message that we stand up for the powerless, not the powerful.
00:38And this has got to be a moment of change where we have greater clarity of purpose and avoid some of the mistakes that we've seen.
00:43But what gets you through in politics is values and mission, and I know that's what Keir is going to focus on.
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