Milburn Watch

So what’s going on?  As Matt blogged last night, and details in his cover piece today, Labour leadership plots are certainly a-brewing; most probably involving Charles Clarke.  While Dizzy has unearthed signs that the 2020 Vision project –  founded by Clarke and Alan Milburn back in the pre-Gordo era to, ahem, offer “direction” to the Labour party – may not be dead after all.  And now, stage right, we have Milburn advising against a wholesale return to the “policies of state intervention” in today’s Independent:

“Meeting the challenges of the modern world calls for a different sort of state: one that empowers, not controls. Faced with the new challenges of global warming and global terror, of mass migration and community insecurity the old top down approach to governance will no longer work. It is not just that the public have reached the limits of what they will pay in taxes, although they have.