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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Alan Milburn told a charity conference in London that the Government must shrink the size of the state and called for measures to improve social mobility, including "cutting taxes for the low paid." He said: "The old top down approach to governance will no longer work. It is not just that the public have reached the limits of what they will pay in taxes, although they have. People in low and middle...
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Adam Boulton Weblog (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Amid all the David Davis frenzy yesterday, I clean forgot I'd done quite an interesting interview with Alan Milburn in the morning. At a speech to chief executives of voluntary sector organisations, he made a few telling points about the...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Voters are running out of patience with Labour over tax and Gordon Brown must change his "top down" approach to government, Alan Milburn has said.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Gordon Brown has failed to set out a "coherent" long-term strategy for governing Britain and risks losing the next election for Labour, a senior Blairite figure has warned.
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ConservativeHome's YourPlatform (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Matt Sinclair of The TaxPayers' Alliance welcomes a Labour MP's call for lower taxes and lower spending. First Alan Milburn argued that the number of civil servants should be cut by a quarter; a measure which could save billions that...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
I would name the guilty men and women, but there are rather a lot of them. It would take up most of this column. One year ago, 313 Labour MPs nominated Gordon Brown to be leader of the Labour Party. Tony Blair, John Reid, Alan Milburn and Tessa Jowell are all to blame for the crisis in which the Government now finds itself. In fact, they are more to blame than those MPs who nominated Brown sincerely...
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dirty european socialist (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
He has a new blog with polls and other stuff and news. Why is he doing this Who does he think he is? Simple he think he is the next PM. :
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NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Though the mysterious Don Paskini is, like myself, a man of the left, he correctly chucks the Moonbat back into his reductive hole. Hopefully he will encounter fellow misguided dogmatist, Alan Milburn , while he's down there.
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
The Liberal pundit Mike Smithson, who has an excellent grapevine, has been told that Alan Milburn may attempt a coup after Crewe. Lots of responses to that. LoL site feed
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Mike Ion (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Rumours that Alan Milburn is contemplating putting his name forward as a challenger to Gordon Brown are rife across Westminster and the Labour blogosphere. If they are true then we will witness a contest that will not simply be about who should lead us, it will be for the very heart and soul of our movement. In September 2006, writing in the Times , Alan Milburn argued: 'New Labour was formed as a...
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Paul Linford (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
A couple of weeks ago I wrote the following sentences in my Saturday Column in the Newcastle Journal. "Potentially the most promising “change candidate” is Darlington MP Alan Milburn, whose still-youthful appearance belies his five years’ Cabinet experience. More importantly, he alone among Labour’s big-hitters has demonstrated an appetite for thinking outside the box. Whether he actually wants the...
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Yesterday it was Charles Clarke being talked up as about to challenge Gordon Brown for leadership of the Labour Party. Today it is Alan Milburn. Tomorrow, who knows? Perhaps Frank Field and Quentin Davies could launch a dream ticket.
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an insatiable yucca (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Today's rumoured Brutus is Alan Milburn, courtesy of PoliticalBetting.com's Mike Smithson. Both Dale and Guido already picked up on it. In this frenzy of names, I keep wondering why nobody mentions the most obvious one, PM.
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A Conservative's blog (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Rumours reached me last night that Alan Milburn, the former health Secretary and strategist of Labour's 2005 general election campaign is to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership this weekend, presumably on the basis that Labour will get absolutely smashed in the Crewe and Nantwich by election. My source for the rumour is a reliable Labour insider, who has dual sourced it himself. Furthermore...
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Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
When Mike Smithson posts a political rumour, I sit up and take notice. This may sound odd, but Mike is not a man to take a punt without having reason to believe a rumour has some truth in it. This morning he has written THIS piece suggesting that Alan Milburn will mount a leadership challenge to Gordn Brown in the aftermath of the Crewe & Nantwich by-election. Would he be credible? To those of us outside...
