Labour MP John Cruddas urged David Miliband regarding Ed ‘Why don’t you f*****g punch him? That’s what I’d do.’

It seems that war has been declared by some followers of David Miliband as rumours abound that the anti-Ed Balls and anti-Ed Miliband stories that have emerged over the past few days are coming from Labour sources. After the past few days of Telegraph revelations, today other papers seem to have been fed stories. Take your pick from The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Independent (none of which are Conservative papers by any means) and The Mail.

The quotation above is from The Mail whose article will not make happy reading for Ed Miliband, should he ever read The Mail that is...

'The full extent of the bitter feud between Ed Miliband and his brother David is exposed for the first time today, as Labour MPs claim that powerful allies of David Miliband have launched a plot to oust the Opposition leader.

The Mail on Sunday today publishes extracts from a new book in which ex-Foreign Secretary Mr Miliband effectively accuses his ‘ruthless’ younger brother of lying about the way he stole the Labour crown from him.

Such is the bad blood between the two men that they are even at war over when the ‘Biblical act of fratricide’ – the moment Ed told David he was going to run – took place. Ed says he went to his brother’s home and told him to his face. Defiant David says no such meeting ever took place.

The authors, two of Britain’s leading Labour-supporting journalists, say that contrary to Ed’s claim that he made a last-minute decision to run for the leadership, he spent years plotting behind his brother’s back to beat him. And the book refers to reports that he tricked David into not standing against Gordon Brown before the 2010 General Election to boost his own chances later.

This sparked a separate schism between Ed and David’s respective wives, Justine Thornton and Louise Shackelton. The book says Louise has been ‘nasty’ to Justine and has ‘cut Ed dead’.

'Somebody seems to have it in for the two Eds, now how do we cuts the list down to a manageable number?