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The BBC website tonight leads its reshuffle coverage with No job for Jon Cruddas.
Don't believe it for a minute. I'm told Jon, who is one of the most able and committed Labour MPs in Westminster, believed he was far too busy to take up a Ministerial brief.
That may sound like a massive ego talking - he was offered at least one job including a senior post in Education and would probably have been sitting in the Cabinet Room at Downing Street later this week.
But Cruddas is not interested in climbing up the greasy pole.
Instead he's got what may prove to be a far more important role. And, in typical Cruddas-style, it's a job he's created for himself.
The British National Party are sneaking into mainstream politics by stealth. They've got an assembly member in Westminster, the nauseating Richard Barnbrook (who the News of the World took great delight in exposing earlier this year as a love cheat), and councilors across the country.
The poorest voters in the most volatile parts of the country are being seduced by their easy message that everything that goes wrong in their communities is down to immigration.
That's not to say there are genuine problems with uncontrolled immigration. It is an issue the mainstream parties are refusing to engage with and as a result the BNP are more of a threat than ever.
Until yesterday, when one Labour MP had the strength of purpose to say "No" to a Ministerial salary.
Good luck Jon. We're here to help.
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