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Milburn gets senior role in Miliband plans



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DAVID Miliband has lined up former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn to be Chancellor of the Exchequer if he takes over from Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, it was reported today.
A newspaper report claimed the Foreign Secretary had been holding talks with the former Health Secretary about a senior role in a Miliband government.

Mr Milburn, an ultra-Blairite who clashed with Mr Brown when he was in government, has said that he would be happy to take the Treasury.

The news follows last week's article by the Foreign Secretary setting out his vision for reviving Labour's fortunes.

The report quoted what it described as a Labour source close to the Miliband-Milburn negotiations as saying: "David has done what he set out to do – to show very clearly that he is prepared to take on the leadership."

The report comes a day after Chancellor Alistair Darling held open the prospect of a stamp duty holiday in an attempt to restore confidence in the housing market.





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  • Last Updated: 06 August 2008 10:32 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Labour Party
 
1

steve 1511,

aberdeen 06/08/2008 12:32:47
our great leader comrade broon of the liebour sleaze and corruption party will raise his great big clunking fist and with one swipe,miliband the eejit who said he wanted one and all to keep a pail in our kitchens for food waste to contol global warming will be gone into oblivion, on the same route as the liebour party
2

ZipptJeffrey,

castle 06/08/2008 12:33:15
If thats the best that the Labour Party has to offer the UK then we are all DOOMED!!
3

Alita,

Notts 06/08/2008 13:04:47
Seriously the Labour should consider bringing TB back to the fold if they are to be in government after the next election
4

SS,

06/08/2008 13:50:02
While not a fan of Broon or Labour I feel the sooner he gets rid of Miliband the better.
5

Neil McCart,

Cheltenham 06/08/2008 14:19:55
Shouldn't the headline read, "Milburn Gets Senior Role in little Millie Band's Pipe Dream"?
6

jdships,

06/08/2008 15:16:53
This guy is in line for the "super optimist of the year " award .
Labour in Scotland , England and probably Wales are unalectable !!

Walter Mitty Milliband
7

bluehead,

edinburgh 22/08/2008 09:44:26
these pair is all that is needed to finish of poor old Britain,I cannot think of a more gruesome twosome.

 

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