Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

This is Miliband’s moment, and he should run as the ‘we screwed up’ challenger

This is Miliband’s moment, and he should run as the ‘we screwed up’ challenger

issue 14 April 2007

It may be time to stop talking about whether David Miliband challenges Gordon Brown, and start talking about when. The young cabinet minister plainly contemplates the possibility — or why would he have been so conspicuously keeping his options open since speculation began? — and nothing has happened that makes a Miliband bid look less auspicious than it did at the outset.

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