Veteran Labour MP George Mudie has hit Miliband’s problems right on the head:

“..the real thing is, do you know, ‘cos I don’t, know our position on welfare, do you know our position on education, do you know our genuine position on how we’d run the health service?”

Time is running out for an answer to that.

Transcript of Mudie’s quotes are here or listen again here.

The New Statesman was saying much the same this morning, and LabourList were reporting leadership murmurs about Miliband’s “drift”. Even Owen Jones is kicking poor old Ed:

It's a statement of the obvious that Labour lacks a clear coherent message and is letting the Tories set the terms of the debate #wato

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) August 1, 2013

Almost as if this was getting some momentum…