This morning's front page of the Telegraph claims that David Miliband is already tauting for members of a future Miliband cabinet.The surprise is that it is former minister and ultra Blairite Alan Milburn.
The former health secretary who left the Blair cabinet to spend more time with his family is being seen as the next Chancellor.A critic of Brown,there have been rumoours that Gordon himself is looking to bring him back into the cabinet
Peter Hoskin writes of two potential problems for such an appointment
whilst Milburn is popular with the Blairites, he is anathema to the Brownites and to the left of the party (remember the unions' response when he was appointed as Labour's general election co-ordinator for 2005?).and secondly
Milburn has been away from the political frontline for some time now. He was last a member of the Cabinet in 2005. Will the public be happy seeing him at the helm of the British economy, particularly when it's going through a particularly rocky period
But could this be the dream ticket for the party? Alan Johnson for Home Secretary perhaps?
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