London, September 27: David Miliband thrusts himself back into the debate over Labour’s future today as he puts forward “my pitch” and issues a coded message to the 58-year-old Prime Minister: ” ‘Future’ is the most important word in politics.”
The Foreign Secretary, who remains one of the most likely people to lead Labour after the election, challenged Gordon Brown to use his last conference before the vote to show the “vision” necessary to avert catastrophic defeat.
And on the eve of the conference in Brighton, it emerged that Sue Nye, the closest member of the PM’s inner circle beyond his wife, Sarah, is planning an exit from Downing Street amid claims that she is unhappy about the increasing influence of a younger member of the No 10 war room.
–Agencies