Ed Balls could pull out in favour of David Miliband, but Milly could only make him Shadow Chancellor if he were elected to the Shadow Cabinet. There is no guarantee of that.
How priceless, if neither of them were to be elected to the list of those to whom Ed Miliband was to allocate portfolios. They would probably both announce that they were leaving Parliament at the next Election, as Tony Blair had been about to do until John Smith died.
As much as anything else, that would be one in the eye of the BBC, which has been campaigning for David Miliband ever since Blair announced that he was standing down.
A verifiable link to this junk, please? -
ReplyDelete"...leaving Parliament at the next Election, as Tony Blair had been about to do when John Smith died."
If so, why didn't he leave? Since everyone including Blair AND Brown expected Brown to walk the leadership?
You'll have to do better than this.
It's the sort of thing that one either knows or one doesn't. "Link", indeed. I ask you!
ReplyDeleteI thought everyone knew that.
ReplyDelete"Everyone" does know that, darling. What does that make anyone who does not know it?
ReplyDeleteThe last living Blair Supporter.
ReplyDeletePeople who do not know this are the same people who think that the deal between Blair and Brown was done at Granita, not at County Hall in Durham. If it makes them feel important then let them get on with it. But we know better and we always did.
ReplyDeleteQuite.
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