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Miliband 'lines up Milburn as chancellor'



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Published Date: 06 August 2008
By angus howarth
DAVID Miliband has lined up former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn to be chancellor if he takes over from Gordon Brown as prime minister, it was reported last night.
It was 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, is understood to have sai
d he would be happy to take the Treasury.

Suspicions have been rife among the allies of the Prime Minister that Mr Miliband is preparing the ground for a possible leadership challenge. This follows last week's newspaper article by the Foreign Secretary setting out his vision for reviving Labour's fortunes.

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

"It is not for him to bring down a prime minister, and he does not know what will happen to Gordon next – that is for others to decide.

"But he wanted to make it very clear … that he is up for this.

"If it comes to a contest, putting Alan Milburn forward as a proposed chancellor would show everyone how serious about rescuing the Labour Party David is."





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  • Last Updated: 05 August 2008 11:30 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Jock Politicaljunkie,

Glasgow 06/08/2008 00:10:15

Well, Milibland just HAS to make a formal challenge of it now.

He's even started making appointments to his Cabinet!!!

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jj veritas,

06/08/2008 00:23:17
Will Miliband bottle it after allowing the hype? Deja vu?
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Oldnat,

06/08/2008 00:23:28
"it was reported last night" - silly season stuff I suspect.
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a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 06/08/2008 01:38:49
Step one: Post a unionist rant first.. cue AM2

Step two: follow up with a quick support post from a new unionist name.. choose a different name each day.. and don't forget the gratuitous anti-SNP attack.. the more personal the better

Step three. wait for a Nat response and then hack the thread with anti-unionist p!sh... blame it on the Nats..and claim to be the aggreived party.

Step four... post outraged attacks on the SNP responding to unprovoked SNP attacks.. if they don't attack right away, attack yourself under a new name to make sure.

Step five...and this is really important, .. if they start to gain ground in the debate...call David Banks and have him crash the site.

REPEAT AS REQUIRED!
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donald,

glasgow 06/08/2008 06:27:33
Labourites scrambling for position on the deck ladders while Titanic sinks.
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Boy Wonder,

06/08/2008 07:35:54
Soon the tyranny of Broon will be over ... and the tyranny of The Millipede will begin!
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Boggle fey the Bog,

06/08/2008 08:03:32
So the Mil* Brothers, are poised to do the dirty on the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP,PC, First Lord of The Exchequer, looks like a 'BOGOF' Miliband and Milburn, will only put Nu Labour/Owld Torie further down the polls.

The problem with these guys is they want the war criminals policies back, they want to completely take on the mantle of Baroness Thatcher and her clone Tory Blair.

Well if that's what they want, so mote it be, it will only hasten the demise of this corrupt Union and bring independence to all it's members sooner rather than later.
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Porry,

06/08/2008 08:05:54
Can we please get rid of this repetitious AM2-proctologist word terrorism and return to a serious exchange of opinion?
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John S,

06/08/2008 08:18:08
I think David Miliband understands that Gordon Brown has a dislike of voting contests and would probably resign rather than having to face a contest and that Gordon will do all in his power to prevent one happening.
1994 He didn't stand for the Labour Party leadership because of the rumoured pact with Tony Blair.
2007 He made sure his take over from Tony was viturally unopposed.
2007 He broke the 2005 Labour manifesto on the EU referendum
2007 He got cold feet and didn't hold a Autumn 2007 general election.
Gordon Brown has never led his party into any national electoral contest, and does not like the thought of it.
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Caratacus,

West Britain 06/08/2008 08:45:38
Come here, Miliband, you little tick!
(Administers a chinese burn!)
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E300,

06/08/2008 09:05:09
Nice to see Gordon getting the same disgusting treatment to which he subjected Tony Bliar for 10 years!
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Guga II,

Rockall 06/08/2008 09:34:39
#18 Donald.

More like rats deserting a sinking ship.
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puskas,

East kilbride 06/08/2008 09:35:45
No24, Both were/are well suited..

With a little patience Millibands presence wouldn't effect Scotland and its people.

We can leave that to our English friends as they wish.
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C U Jimmy,

Mauchline 06/08/2008 09:50:20
Is it Chancellor or Chancer ?
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Paddi,

06/08/2008 10:03:31
Is this the same guy who is a complete nonentity as UK Foreign Secretary, emasculated by the Russians and Chinese when it came to a veto on Zimbabwe, made to look like a half wit and utterly useless and devoid of any policy in Europe. If this is the best Labour can offer us to replace the gormless Brown, then god help them and us.
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Tommy Trout,

Alicante, Spain 06/08/2008 10:24:19
#28 Paddi
Yes, and the same individual who had a "David Davis" moment on the road to Westminster and decided he needed to be with his "family" rather than continue to serve as a Minister under Blair. I assume his family is fully grown now that he is eyeing the opportunity to stick the boot into Brown. He better hope Miliband wins through because if he could not get the better of Brown when he was Chancellor, what chance does he have when Brown is PM.
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Alan B,

06/08/2008 10:51:04
#E300

"Nice to see Gordon getting the same disgusting treatment to which he subjected Tony Bliar for 10 years!"

While i cannot stand brown it was blair that stabbed brown in the back after they made a deal, whereby brown would support blair and then blair would hand power over to brown after a single term in office.
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Alan B,

06/08/2008 10:52:57
The ship might be sinking under brown but miliband is sure to completely torpedeo it.
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John south of Soutra,

06/08/2008 11:05:17
Are we to assume from this - David Miliband has lined up former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn to be chancellor if he takes over from Gordon Brown as prime minister - that when Brown is ousted there will be election and we will again be subjected to a Prime Minster who was not the the leader of the Labour party that contested the election.
Absolutely no creditbility left in this lot whatsoever
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Teamdroid,

06/08/2008 11:36:38
#22 - possibly that's because he's never won an election from the front. Since the start of 2007, Brown has faced 3 by-elections, pulled the strings of Labour's May 07 Holyrood elections, and faced England/Wales council elections, and lost them all. Heavily, with the exception of the Holyrood one.

The guy is simply a loser - that's how people throughout people perceive him. They perceived Blair as a winner, even if they didn't like him.

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Paddi,

06/08/2008 11:56:29
#29 the best was wee Dave telling us at the last labour conference, in that stop start patronising way of speaking "Yes the world can be a scary place. ... We must learn lessons" 11 years and they still havent learnt any lessons.
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Spoot,

Third rock pool on the left 06/08/2008 12:43:37
I'm just putting the finishing touches to my own cabinet line-up, and it only remains to get in touch with the individuals on the list. It's a much more impressive range of talent than David Miniband could hope to assemble, and it's as least as likely to take over at Westminster as his band of no-hopers.
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David Harrington,

Edinburgh 06/08/2008 12:55:55
Alan Milburn would be a big improvement compared to Alistair Darling - the old joke about not being able to tell between a cardboard cutout and the real thing has some truth, given his record of inaction.
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megz,

Glasgow 06/08/2008 13:16:07
oooh sounds like things are gathering pace. Is this millipede and relation to the hungry caterpillar wendy was always babbling on about?? Looks like my prediction of brown holding on til 2010 is going to be well wide of the mark.
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JoeMiddleton,

Edinburgh 06/08/2008 13:29:21
The whole story is a work of fiction according to both parties and the fact the Scotsman is willing to keep it alive knowing this just shows what a crappy rag it has become. Personally I couldn't care less who leads Labour and I doubt that I am alone.

Labour sold their political soul before entering office when the Tories take over again it will be business as usual. Politics is not a beauty contest and if the 'dour Scot' Brown is removed in favour of some more appealing face it will not save Labour's basically anti-Scottish party.
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Dandyesque,

Aberdeen 06/08/2008 14:26:23
I was under the impression that Brown managed the last 3 election campaigns for nu Labour?
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doublescotch,

U.S.A. 06/08/2008 14:29:43
#23 :)
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Caratacus,

West Britain 06/08/2008 15:22:13
What d'you think of them apples, Mr Milburn!
(Proceeds to give him a wedgie)
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Jimmy Le Pie,

06/08/2008 20:17:48
From the Independent.

Games up, comrades

Gordon Brown is leading Labour to its worst electoral defeat since the 1930s, according to a new "poll of polls" for The Independent. On current levels of support, Labour would lose almost half its MPs at the next election and David Cameron would become Prime Minister with an overwhelming majority
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Daveunderwater,

Woolpack 07/08/2008 08:57:01
By 'eck there's trouble at Mills
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Daveunderwater,

07/08/2008 08:58:30
# 31

Red sails in the sunseat springs to mind!!
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henrymanchester,

UK 08/08/2008 05:08:02
All the main parties are unfit to govern.

Only independence can stop this erosion of both liberty and sovereignty.

 

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