Will the real David Miliband please stand up?

Posted by me on September 23, 2008 5:52 PM

IF DAVID MILIBAND is secretly plotting to bring down Gordon Brown, then the strategy must be to lick the Prime Minister to death.

That can be the only conclusion from the Foreign Secretary's showpiece conference speech yesterday when the leader- in-waiting was gushing in his praise - perhaps just a little too gushing.

After all, two words are absent from almost every speech made in Manchester this week. They are 'Brown' and 'Gordon' - reflecting the widespread view that the unpopular PM is dragging down his party.

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My man of the conference: Bryan Robson

Posted by me on September 24, 2008 5:49 PM

THE journalists were confident of beating the Labour MPs in the annual conference football match - until their "ringer" walked in as I was lacing up my boots.

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Gordon Brown: This new mood won't last

Posted by me on September 24, 2008 5:44 PM

IT'S an ill wind that blows nobody any good and the hurricane that swept through the financial markets has proved a godsend for our beleaguered Prime Minister.

Suddenly, Gordon Brown is no longer drowning but has clambered aboard the liferaft of attacking City of London greed and excess - that same greed and excess he indulged for a decade.

Just as important, the Labour faithful have a new cause - taking on the "spivs and speculators" that have brought the banks to their knees - and a new line of attack against the Tories.

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Introducing the Knowsley knife...

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Posted by me on September 16, 2008 5:59 PM

BACK in the summer, when all other Labour MPs stayed silent, Knowsley North MP George Howarth was brave enough to tell Gordon Brown: "You are the problem."

Now, after Mr Howarth became one of the first to wound the PM with his demand for a leadership contest, it can't be long before someone dubs him "The Knowsley Knife".

Oooops, I just did.

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Is Nick Clegg a Tory hiding behind sandals?

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Posted by me on September 17, 2008 7:51 AM

JUST a few weeks ago, the Liberal Democrats unveiled a "Hit The North" campaign to pour staff and money into dozens of vulnerable Labour seats from the Mersey to the Tyne.

Liverpool Wavertree and Warrington South were just two constituencies set to turn orange, party leader Nick Clegg vowed, as he exploited Gordon Brown's woes to the max.

Now the same Mr Clegg has persuaded the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth to adopt a radical tax-cutting agenda blatantly designed to outflank the Tories and shore up votes in the South.
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