The plot thickens…

And so the Labour leadership struggle rumbles on, with claims by Team Miliband that the Milburn for Chancellor story was “fictional” – an effort by the Brownites to smear their man as an uber-Blairite, and thereby alienate him from the left of the party.  But Rosa Prince of the Telegraph has since claimed, in no uncertain terms, that the Milburn story came from “friends of Miliband”.  And a new article on the Telegraph website suggests that the Team Miliband denials are an attempt, on their part, to quell criticism from other Labour MPs.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the speculation.  And I can currently see only one winner emerging from it all: The Conservatives.  After all, the more the struggle between Teams Brown and Miliband appears on the front pages, the more Labour will seem like a party in decline.  And that’s hardly going to endear them to the voting public.