Professor Marc Stears ranked 8th most influential left-winger by Telegraph

Marc Stears was ranked 8th in The Telegraph's list of the Top 100 most influential left-wingers (24 September).

The article described Mark as follows:

"Marc Stears has known Ed Miliband longer than anybody on this list, except for the Labour leader’s brother David. They studied PPE together at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where Miliband, then called Ted, led a rent strike as JCR President. Stears, a political theorist, became an Oxford academic but has now joined the Westminster wonks at the IPPR, where he is trying to put some policy content into the ideas of ‘blue Labour’. The mild-mannered Stears has kept a much lower media profile than allies like Maurice Glasman, but he is the person most trusted by the Labour leader."

The full article can be read here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10331110/Top-100-most-influential-Left-wingers-50-1.html