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Daily View 2×2: 26 October 2009

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Miliband backs Blair as EU President

Well, here’s a turn-up for the books – the man who was Tony Blair’s head of policy is now backing his former boss for the new post of President of the European Union. Who’d have thunk it? The BBC reports:

David Miliband has ruled himself out of taking a senior role within the EU, while endorsing Tony Blair for the new post of European president. … it would be “good for Britain and good for Europe” if Mr Blair became the president of the European Council. Although Mr Blair is seen as frontrunner

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    @ Paul Barker, "Currently Reform are losing about 1% every two Weeks, that doesn’t sound much but its enough to lose them their lead over Labour in th...
  • Peter Hirst
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    I like the emphasis on involving the local party(ies). Ideally, they should institute the process. I note the new power of Regional Candidates Chairs to start t...