Ed Miliband 'will not be Labour's Iain Duncan Smith According to a leaked internal memo, Tom Baldwin, Mr Miliband's director of strategy, told colleagues Labour's recent poor poll results had been "blips" and there was "no reason to believe" the party could have done more to win over Tory voters. The message for the public should be that Mr Miliband has been "ahead of the curve" and has shown the "steely determination" needed to tackle vested interests in society, he wrote. The next phase of campaigning must aim to show how "Labour can be trusted to govern in straitened times," he said. He has suffered criticism at the hands of party colleagues who are increasingly unhappy that Labour has not made more progress against the Tories. One of his closest political allies, Lord Glasman, said this week that there was "no strategy, no narrative and little energy" in Mr Miliband's leadership. Any claims that Mr Miliband was destined for the same failure suffered by the former Conservative leaders, Mr Duncan Smith, Lord Howard of Lympne, or William Hague, should be dismissed, he said. Polls have been remarkably stable for the last year since we took the lead with blips over Europe turning out to be mere blips. No reason to believe there is more we could have done so soon to move Tories over to our side. Damaging splits or return to factionalism would have made it a bad year. Mr Baldwin later played down the significance of his note. It's not a memo. It's a briefing note for people appearing on television which was widely distributed," he said. Flagging poll results combined with growing unrest among senior Labour MPs has led some party figures to warn privately that Mr Milband had "weeks" to decide how to regain the public's confidence.