Miliband on Cameron
By ROGER COHEN
NYT
LONDON — With an election months away, the governing Labour Party’s prospects against David Cameron’s Conservatives look near hopeless. But I found Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a combative mood, fired up by more Tory lunacy on Europe, an issue that has also piqued the interest of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Miliband, a bushy-tailed 44-year-old with a brain of rat-tat-tat precision, represents the next generation of Labour leadership. But that’s a story for another day given that the Gordon Brown saga, with its heavy-browed air of inevitable tragedy, limps still toward its Heathcliffian conclusion.
The story for now is sexy enough. It involves the strange confluence of Tory Europe phobia, far-right fringe parties in Poland and Latvia, charges of anti-Semitism, Tony Blair’s political ambitions, Cameron’s Blair complex, and the Obama administration’s interest in a strong European Union with an effective British presence.
Don’t worry, I’ll explain. Cameron, whose party holds an advantage of close to 17 percent over Labour, is likely to become prime minister next year. Britain, governed by Labour for a dozen years, craves change.
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NYT
LONDON — With an election months away, the governing Labour Party’s prospects against David Cameron’s Conservatives look near hopeless. But I found Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a combative mood, fired up by more Tory lunacy on Europe, an issue that has also piqued the interest of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Miliband, a bushy-tailed 44-year-old with a brain of rat-tat-tat precision, represents the next generation of Labour leadership. But that’s a story for another day given that the Gordon Brown saga, with its heavy-browed air of inevitable tragedy, limps still toward its Heathcliffian conclusion.
The story for now is sexy enough. It involves the strange confluence of Tory Europe phobia, far-right fringe parties in Poland and Latvia, charges of anti-Semitism, Tony Blair’s political ambitions, Cameron’s Blair complex, and the Obama administration’s interest in a strong European Union with an effective British presence.
Don’t worry, I’ll explain. Cameron, whose party holds an advantage of close to 17 percent over Labour, is likely to become prime minister next year. Britain, governed by Labour for a dozen years, craves change.
(Continued here.)
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