He may not be able to generate enough electricity to power a lightbulb, but former Labour leader Ed Miliband is blamed by senior Labour figures – Guido can reveal – for the crisis currently engulfing Downing Street. And you thought he was just a windmill-loving chump…
Red Ed is back like a blast from the past, reportedly on major manoeuvres after Starmer tried to remove him as Energy Secretary last week. A rash of newspaper briefings recounted how Miliband “defied” Downing Street and managed to cling onto the brief – removing him was meant to be a key plank of the doomed ‘phase two’ reshuffle…
Miliband’s personal politics are to the left of the No10 apparat around Starmer. He is seen within Labour special adviser circles as a key orchestrator of the ‘soft left’ tendency in the PLP. It will not have gone unnoticed in Number 10 that Miliband has endorsed Lucy Powell for the Labour deputy leadership, not Downing Street’s candidate Bridget Phillipson. Insiders suggest Miliband’s invective against Starmer is powered by the fantasy that he may make a return, or be the kingmaker in the appointment of a ‘soft left’ leader such as Burnham or Nandy…
Multiple senior Labour figures pointed the finger at the Miliband camp over inflammatory briefings aimed at undermining Starmer’s authority. The shadow of the Ed stone is looming over Downing Street…
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