Life is good in the Labour party right now – which is perhaps why it’s no surprise that a few old faces could be making a comeback. In the late nineties and early noughties, a crop of talented young New Labour advisors were dubbed ‘the golden generation’. Much like their footballing equivalents in the England team of that period, they flattered to deceive, with many leaving politics in the arid years after the 2010 election. Some lost their seats; others declined to waste their prime years in opposition under the plodding leadership of Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.
Now though, with the Starmer army 20 points ahead in the polls, one or two New Labour golden boys are looking to rejoin the fray. Earlier this week, David Miliband – a longtime Blairite prince over the water in New York – declined to rule out such a comeback to Andrew Marr on LBC.
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