(An earlier version of this paper was posted in June on the CPD Web - site just prior to the Senate debate of the Energy Bill to help inform that debate and for discussion and
commentary by interested parties prior to CPD board and membership approval.
The Labour leader attracted unusually high levels of criticism online during his interview for BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme, in which he refused to speculate on his
party's performance in Thursday's local elections
by declaring he is not
interested in «political
commentary».