In an exclusive interview with Bite the News, the former foreign secretary, who is favourite to succeed Gordon Brown, said New Labour was an outdated creed that had served its purpose and now had to be replaced. “New Labour isn’t new any more, infact it’s more old Labour than the old Labour Party. What I’m interested in is the next New Labour, the ‘New New Labour Party’. And the route to the next Labour is to be ‘listening’. We will become the listening party. We will listen more than any other party in British political history. Labour will listen and listen and listen”

Our Home Affairs correspondent Sir Arthur Mitchell asked the Rt Hon MP for South Shields whether or not he believed the Conservative-Liberal Pact would survive a full 5 years in office. Miliband continued ‘The New Labour Party lost the last election because we did not listen to the questions being asked. What we need to do is listen more and talk less’.

Asked whether or not he feared a rival leadership bid from his brother, David Miliband continued: “The polls had us third for a significant part of the election campaign. And you know that that’s a near-death experience,” he said.

“We have to face facts, New Labour has run it’s course. However I do not want to take the Party back to the dark old days of socialism and ‘equality at any cost’. What I am proposing is a New New Labour Party and with this will come some radical shifts in policy, it has to be more realistic, it has to accept the very real challenges facing Britain today”

He continued: “The 2010 manifesto promised ‘more help for parents to balance work and family life, with a ‘Father’s Month’ of flexible paid leave’. However we have to accept that we are facing a financial crisis. We cannot maintain spending at it’s current level. What I propose is a new radical ‘28 day financial ‘full pay’ support package’ for new father’s”

“Similarly New Labour promised ‘to secure the recovery by supporting the economy now, and more than halve the deficit by 2014 through economic growth, fair taxes and cuts to lower priority spending’. However I believe passionately that to “more than halve the deficit by 2014″ would result in great personal hardship for the most vunerable members of our society. If I become the next leader of the New New Labour Party I could only commit to reducing the deficit by just over 50%. This I believe would improve our economy whilst protecting the poorer members of our community”

Pledging to address concerns over immigration, he said Labour had been slow off the mark on many issues that mattered to people. “People felt we were late to the game on political reform and antisocial behaviour. We lost focus on that. Immigration, late to the game with the Australian points system. Social care, late to the game. We have to start listening and start not being late to the game”

Yesterday Miliband’s younger brother, Ed, the former energy secretary, launched his bid to lead Labour, telling the Fabian Society that the party had become “ideologically beached”.

“My brother David would make a fine leader. He is correct when he claims that New Labour is dead.  However I believe his proposal of a New New Labour Party does not go far enough. What I am suggesting is the creation of a New New New Labour Party. Rather than just listening to the public I passionately believe that we need to start paying attention to the electorate”

When asked by our correspondent whether or not he would uphold New Labour’s promise to review Britain’s out of date ‘first past the post’ electoral system Ed Miliband replied: “We can never be late to the game again. My New New New Labour Party would never be late to the game”

If neither of the of the Miliband brothers are successful in their leadership bid rumour has it they will leave politics and reform their ‘Mike and Bernie Winters’ tribute act which was so successful in the early 1990’s

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There is considerable anger in the boardroom at Stamford Bridge over Carvalho’s alleged behaviour and a determination to punish the Portugese defender severely after reports yesterday that he deliberately misled senior club officials into covering up his lack of sexual activity on last summer’s pre-season tour to the United States.

Carvalho will be called in to face Ron Gourlay, the chief executive, this week and asked to give his side of the story in the wake of allegations that he ‘went to bed early’ whilst fellow team mates took part in the ’spit roasting’ of Ann Corbitt, an American local government worker.

Only last Wednesday Gourlay addressed Chelsea’s entire first-team squad to remind them of their responsibilities to promote the club’s image as the sleaziest team in Europe. Chelsea view this latest indiscretion as the most serious because Carvalho, 31, has been accused of lying to his employers to cover his tracks.

Chelsea are determined to send out a message that no one at the club is untouchable.

Carvalho has already been fined £200,000 after newspaper reports last week suggested that he regularly took wife Carina and son Rodrigo to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Battersea, South London.It is also believed that he pledged over two month’s wages to the Haiti Relief Fund and further that he attempted to keep this donation private. It would be a record fine imposed on a Premier League player by his club.

Under rules agreed with the Professional Footballers’ Association, the maximum that a club can fine a player for a disciplinary breach is two weeks’ wages, but because Carvalho is accused of several misdemeanours, the club want to hit him with multiple punishments.

Club Secretary David Barnard told our Sports correspondent “Ricardo only has himself to blame. Apart from performing an unnatural act on a ball boy at last season’s FA Cup Final Carvalho has behaved impeccably since joining us from Porto. In six seasons he has not once cheated on his wife, urinated in public, been involved with any illegal Asian gambling syndicates or even senselessly attacked a disadvantaged member of society. Chelsea FC has traditions which we aim to uphold. If he continues to behave in such a noble and responsible manner I fear for his future at this club. I’m afraid that Carvalho’s basic decency is at odds with the Chelsea brand.

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Talking to BTN’s Arts and Science correspondent John Marshall, 48, from Woking in Surrey said yesterday:

“I have been trying to have an affair now for over 18 months but just can’t seem to see women purely as sex objects. Successful affairs, so I am told, are often very short and extremely intense. They rely on each person’s ability to see the other simply as a sexual plaything, in that way no deep emotions take place and the marriages of both parties can survive into old age”.

Marshall continued: “My father has had numerous affairs throughout his life. He left home when I was 11 after a brief liaison with Lesley Judd, one time presenter of children’s TV Show Blue Peter. My mother had a breakdown so consequently I only saw the negative effects of sexual impropriety. He never stayed around long enough to teach me the art of having ‘no strings attached sex’. I personally believe I am missing out very much. I arrange to meet like minded women on the internet but I have never been able to ‘clinch the deal’ as it were”

“Last weekend I took myself down to Exeter to meet a 35 year old nurse, who I shall call Jenny. We had planned an afternoon of high jinx and soft bondage. When I arrived she was dressed up in stockings and suspenders and one thing led to another. Before I knew what was happening I was discussing her teenage daughter’s dyslexia and the detrimental effect that was having on her self esteem. Then we talked about her mother who was showing early signs of dementia and the pro’s and con’s of elderly care homes. I spent half an hour sorting out her tax returns for chrissake. To be honest it took the passion out of the situation. How could I ask a women, who not 10 minutes earlier had told me about her sister’s laparoscopy, whether or not she took it up the Jack Daniels?.

“I did everything I could to reignite the afternoon. Even when I tried to imagine Sue Barker (*) on all fours thoughts came into my head about a double fault she made at the US Open back in 1977 which ruined her chances of a second successive Grand Slam. Jenny put her jeans on and we went out for a Devon cream tea”.

Nicola Watson, a Sexual therapist at the London School of Counselling and Psychotherapy told our reporter: “Many people, men and women, get to their 40’s and start to contemplate having extra marital sex. The children are often well into their teenage years and not as visible as they once were. The all consuming sense of responsibility most parents have when their offspring are toddlers has gone and people start pondering on the fact that physically their best days are behind them”

Watson continued: “At this point individuals often start surfing adult chat rooms as a means of getting some excitement into their otherwise dull and monotonous lives. The internet has been responsible for many online affairs and these often progress into real life encounters. For anyone to be able to participate in what Freud called ‘ egocentric quickies’ they need to objectify the other person to such an extent that no genuine emotions evolve. This allows for the possibilty of multi-partner sex which for some, myself included, is very exciting indeed”

“Mr Marshall maintains that in leaving the family unit while he was still so young, his father prevented him from developing the ability to have ’sex for sex sake’. With only his mother and two older sisters as role models John was deprived access to traditional male activities such as gesticulating wildly at the television when Baywatch came on or talking openly about ‘what they’d like to do to Carol Vorderman given half the chance’. John has learnt to see woman as real people with real emotions which has unfortunately left him unable to treat them as sex toys. His father has a lot to answer for”

The writ asks Gordon Marshall to pay him £100,000 plus interest.

John’s father had vowed to teach his son the art of demeaning women but ‘always seemed to have better things to do’.

“That was Dad all over” Mr Marshall said, “Full of empty promises”

The case continues.

(*) Sue Barker, 1977 Wimbledon semi finalist and now presenter of BBC’s ‘Question of Sport’. Known for her love of ‘doggy sex’

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