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...By spending so much, he and Alan Milburn, his health secretary, could face down those who claimed that funding was the sole problem and focus on reform....
...Former home secretaries Charles Clarke and Jacqui Smith have also made the move into the Big Four, both as consultants for KPMG....
...… Decoded: A Novel, by Mai Jia, translated by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne, Allen Lane, RRP£18.99/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26 Twelve years after it was published in China, this best-selling...
...They include Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn, John Prescott and John Reid....
...I’m told that Charles Clarke has gathered 30-odd names. And that Fiona McTaggart can vouch for more than 40 (who knows if these are the same MPs?)....
...They include Charles Clarke, Stephen Byers and Alan Milburn, who are all disillusioned former cabinet ministers loyal to Tony Blair; Siobhan McDonagh, Janet Anderson and Joan Ryan, also unhappy Blairites...
...Charles Clarke, former home secretary, and Alan Milburn, former health secretary, are among those outside the cabinet formulating policies to take forward Tony Blair’s modernisation agenda....
...Some on what used to be called the “Blairite” wing of the party – such as Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers – want Mr Brown to be a more aggressive moderniser, promoting more personal choice...
...They include Charles Clarke, David Blunkett, Alan Milburn or Stephen Byers. Most have been loyally silent (apart from Mr Clarke, who lapsed but appears to have been forgiven)....
...Even Mr Blair could rely on the likes of Charles Clarke, John Reid, Alan Milburn and, pre-Iraq, Robin Cook to tour the television studios when the going got rough....
...Yet the likes of Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn know that a Blairite rebellion could tear the party apart....
...Another fine mess On the terrace of the Commons the other evening I caught sight of the former cabinet ministers, Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn, chatting away happily....
...So let’s take another look at the 2020 Vision website launched by former cabinet ministers Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn, at least one of whom would like Blair’s job....
...So Charles Clarke says reports that he will run against Gordon Brown in a Labour leadership contest are, um, rubbish, but he won’t rule out being a candidate....
...The launch of Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn’s “the 2020 vision” initiative certainly attracted plenty of media interest, with journalists far outnumbering Labour MPs, of which only about a dozen turned...
...So what are Clarke and Milburn up to? Gathering support for a challenge to Brown?...
...Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn, two former cabinet colleagues, have demanded he lay out a prospectus before assuming Tony Blair’s mantle. They have a point. The mood among Labour MPs is ragged....
...The evidence is that the sniping from ex-ministers, including Alan Milburn, Charles Clarke and Stephen Byers, has failed to erode support for Mr Brown. Indeed, the reverse seems to be true....
...Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, has opened the bidding with a thoughtful explanation of the fracturing of the New Labour coalition....
...Alan Milburn, a former cabinet minister and loyal Blairite, said he had been interviewed as a witness by police....
...Alan Milburn, the former health secretary, and John Hutton, the work and pensions minister, are expected to give speeches calling for a full debate about longer-term policies....
...Other possible contenders could be Alan Milburn, the former health secretary, or even Mr Clarke himself....
...Those most frequently mentioned are John Reid, Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn. All are probably capable of running strong campaigns....
...But he has long been a close ally of Alan Milburn, the radical advocate of public reform who is close to Mr Blair....
...Charles Grant, director of the think-tank, the Centre for European Reform, predicts the prime minister would immediately resign following a No vote....
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