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Posturing for Change
While John McCain and Barack Obama continue to battle for the Presidency of the United States, the contenders for leadership in the UK also have begun posturing — but this time, it’s within the Labour-majority Government’s own ranks.
Yesterday, David Milliband, the current Foreign Secretary, took advantage of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s summer break to publish his own platform for change:
In the aftermath of Labour’s third successive defeat at the 1959 election, a famous pamphlet asked the question: “Must Labour lose?” Today, the temptation is similar fatalism. We must not yield to it. We need to remember that there is little real sense among the public — or even among Tory MPs — of what the Conservatives stand for, or what they would do in power.
The odds are against us, no question. But I still believe we can win the next election…. The starting point is not debating personalities but winning the argument about our record, our vision for the future and how we achieve it.
When quizzed at a press conference (that just happened to follow publication of the article) about whether he was challenging Brown for leadership of the Labour Party, Milliband’s body language was the opposite of his weak words. Watch the video for yourselves here.
Autumn 2008 promises to be an interesting time politically. Watch out world — we may see a whole different kind of “coalition of the willing” emerge!
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