As part of the fallout, some shadow cabinet members say they were crowded out of a campaign that failed to project Labour as a team that includes strong women such as Harriet Harman and Yvette Cooper.
For example, he encourages the use of "Project Labour Agreements" on big federal construction projects, whereby contractors must recruit through a union hiring hall.
Assuming Britain continues investing around £25 billion in capital projects, Labour would have to make savings of around £7 billion a year.
This is partly to do with funding: how do we know that the projects Labour has funded are actually reducing vulnerability to extreme ideas and radicalisation?
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) looks at global trends in the labour market, and one of the things it does is to project forward labour participation rates in the different regions of the world.
Mr Gould is not predicting a Tory win at the next election; he projects a Labour victory by a margin of about 5%.
Miliband's aides are hoping to use the conference speech and a subsequent party political broadcast to project the Labour leader as a grounded, authentic figure with values that will not change.
For Cameron there aren't many ways of closing that 20-seat deficit other than by halving the party's current projected losses to Labour.
Here is a round up of the key points around the country so far: Projected vote share: Labour 38%, Conservatives 31%, Lib Dems 16%, others 15%.
