Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has urged Ed Miliband to use new rules to change his shadow cabinet. Delegates at Labour's conference have voted to allow party leaders to choose their own cabinet when in opposition, rather than have MPs elect it. "There are some people in there who are undoubtedly not carrying their weight," Lord Prescott told the Today programme. For the first time in 40 years, the Labour peer is not attending this week's party conference in Liverpool. Lord Prescott stepped down as an MP at the general election in 2010 and failed in his bid to become Labour Party Treasurer at last year's conference. He told Today some shadow cabinet members were not even campaigning. "This is a Tory government that's doing some outrageous things and we haven't had many words of protest. Ed, you're the leader, get a shadow cabinet who'll do that."
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