Monday 9 January 2012

Give Over, Darling

I do not know the details, but my father's last surviving sibling is adamant that we are related to Alistair Darling, and I have no reason to doubt her. My mother maintains that my eyebrows will stay black after my hair has turned white.

I have no idea whether or not he is behind today's speculation that he might take over as Leader if the Labour Party. But I know that, like Bob Ainsworth and like Geoff Gallop (Tony Blair's mentor at Oxford), he started out in the International Marxist Group.

Will he say that that had been wrong at the time? More to the point, will he get behind the Leader who has won five by-elections in a row?

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