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Stand by for “Explosive revelations” from Alastair Darling

Stand by for “Explosive revelations” from Alastair Darling

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Is this going to make Miliband’s task much harder? According to Atul Hatwal of Labour Uncut there are about to be some explosive revelations in Alastair Darling’s upcoming memoir:- He writes: “.Darling details the total breakdown in trust between the prime minister and chancellor. He singles out Ed Balls and Shriti Vadhera as key Brown lieutenants running what amounted to a shadow treasury operation within government. Brown’s demeanour was increasingly “brutal and volcanic”, mistrusting Darling to the extent that he…

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Is all this about stopping Balls from over-throwing Miliband?

Is all this about stopping Balls from over-throwing Miliband?

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SkyNews What’s behind the “Brown plot” revelations? Those who’ve read the accounts of the Brown-Blair wars, particularly those by Andrew Rawnsley and Anthony Seldon, won’t find much to surprise them in the overnight revelations in the Daily Telegraph. What this does is to flesh out what was already in the public domain with the remarkable added realism of hand-written jottings on documents by Gordon Brown and Ed Balls. That the paper has documentary evidence of Brown in 2005 telling Balls…

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But what does this mean for today’s politics?

But what does this mean for today’s politics?

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Will it have interest beyond political anoraks? Just looking at tomorrow Telegraph splash and reading the some of the documents from Brown camp that have been leaked I’m trying to work out what relevance this will all have for today. This was all six years ago – some of the players are still there others are gone. Ed Miliband and Balls, his shadow chancellor were all closely involved but do the public really give a damn? I suppose that it…

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Are we seeing the resurrection of Mr. Brown?

Are we seeing the resurrection of Mr. Brown?

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Is he blamed unfairly for Labour’s defeat? There’s a new book out by some of the main figures associated with Ipsos-MORI, Robert Worcester, Roger Mortimore, Paul Baines and Mark Gill, which seeks to offer further analysis of last years general election. It’s called “Explaining Cameron’s Coalition” and whenever I get a review copy I’ll be able to discuss it in more detail. What’s being said about the book so far is that it suggests that the widespread perception that Gordon…

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So are you backing Gordon….?

So are you backing Gordon….?

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DSK has now resigned as IMF head, and Hills have released their next IMF leader prices which are: Kemal Dervis, Turkey 5/2 Montek Singh Ahluwalia, India 5/1 Axel Weber, Germany 7/1 Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore 8/1 Gordon Brown, UK 8/1 John Lipsky, USA 10/1 Mark Carney, Canada 10/1 Philipp Hildebrand, Switzerland 12/1 Peer Steinbruck, Germany 12/1 Stanley Fischer, Israel 16/1 Changyong Rhee, South Korea 16/1 Hyun Song Shin, South Korea 16/1 Trevor Manuel, South Africa 20/1 Christine Lagarde, France 20/1 Mohamed…

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What if 458 Tory voters in these seats had acted differently?

What if 458 Tory voters in these seats had acted differently?

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General Election May 6 2010 CON>LAB/LD switchers required Warwickshire North 28 Camborne & Redruth (LD) 34 Thurrock 47 Hendon 54 Oxford West & Abingdon 89 Cardiff North 98 Sherwood 108 Total switchers needed ***458*** Would Labour have hung onto power? As we all are no doubt aware the May 2010 general election finished up with party seat totals that meant that only a combination of the 307 Conservative MPs with the 57 Lib Dem ones could produce a majority government….

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How long will the TB-GB psycho-drama plague Labour?

How long will the TB-GB psycho-drama plague Labour?

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Daily Mail Is everything still being defined by the ex-leaders ? The big news for Labour as we move into September should be the start of voting in the first contested election for a leader since 1994. Instead the media remain obsessed with the Blair-Brown years and “what really went on”. Just look at this week. A couple of days ago the Mail on Sunday had the second part of the serialisation of the Chris Mullin diaries. Yesterday a short…

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Will the MiliD-MiliE outcome be a verdict on NuLab?

Will the MiliD-MiliE outcome be a verdict on NuLab?

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…are these headlines helpful to the younger brother? With voting in Labour’s election due to start on Wednesday two papers at the “quality” end of the market have front pages that are dominated by the relations between the US and the UK during the Iraq War and its aftermath. The Telegraph says that it has been told that Tony Blair sought to hang on to office for longer than he did after hearing concerns from President Bush about the suitability…

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