Apr 16 2007
No more celebrity - but bring on Mr Milliband?
One cheer for Gordon Brown trying to take the celebrity out of politics. In the modern version served up by New Labour it will be a bit like trying to make bread without flour, but I can see why he thinks the cult of celebrity has all gone too far. When the Defence Secretary tries to make our navy look like contestants in Big Brother it is certainly time for a change.
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Brown must dislike Milliband; after 14 years of having to deal with Blair Mark 1, he surely doesn’t want a younger version in Cabinet, behaving as badly as he has, towards the prime minister. But Milliband’s ambition maybe the undoing of him. Brown’s lap-dog, Ed Balls seems odds on to be Chancellor, So maybe Brown makes Milliband Home Secretary, waits for the inevitable series of debacles then sacks him as an incompetent.