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How should you choose a shadow cabinet?

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Labour leader Ed Miliband wants to change the system by which members of the shadow cabinet are elected, so that the party leader appoints them.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander throws his support behind the move.

And John McDonnell, who ran for the Labour leadership himself, gives his view on the best way to "build a team" in politics.


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