Paul Linford

The forthcoming election is, first and foremost, about the future of the NHS and whether, under a majority Tory government, it will by 2020 ...

Back in 2003, I went along to a Downing Street press briefing along with the rest of the Westminster media corps expecting to be given detai...

At first sight, former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn's criticisms of the Conservative-led Coalition's revamped health reforms...

The milestone of a new government's 100th day in office is one of those political landmarks which is perhaps given undue significance by...

Some possible reasons as to why Alan Milburn (Lab, Darlington 1992-2010) has decided to go and work for David Cameron. Not all of these are...

This week's Journal column focuses on North-East matters, namely the forthcoming retirement of at least ten of the region's 30 MPs. ...

Alan Milburn says that Labour must bring forward a message of "change" if the party is to win the next election. John Prescott ...

If David Miliband is to become Labour leader, he will have to win it from the centre, not by surrounding himself with Blairite "ultras....

Those were the words apparently used by Alan Milburn to describe Rosa Prince's now-infamous Telegraph story that he had been offered th...

So where do the events of the last 24 hours leave us? David Miliband has set out his stall in what despite his protestations is a barely...

Today's column in the Newcastle Journal, focusing on the potential fallout from Crewe and Nantwich and the prospects for a Milburn leade...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote the following sentences in my Saturday Column in the Newcastle Journal. "Potentially the most promising ...

Mike Smithson has a potentially huge story HERE . Mike is to the political blogosphere what Phil Webster of The Times was to the Lobby in m...

For the past fortnight since the local election debacle I have been running a Poll on who should lead the Labour Party into the next genera...

How much longer has Gordon Brown got to turn things around for Labour? And if he fails, who might replace him? Here's my column from t...

Northern Decision Makers - Alan Milburn part one Uploaded by broadbandtvchannel I am pleased to be able to carry on this blog an interview w...

I have, in the past, been a great admirer of Peter Hain . Up to about 2002/3 he was a strong progressive voice within government who was occ...

Some interesting speculation today from Peter Diapre, writing on Boulton and Co , about the possible return of Alan Milburn to a governmenta...

Is the "Stop Gordon" mission by the Blairite ultras doomed to destruction, or will it explode Gordon Brown's hopes of the prem...

So Alan Milburn and Charlie No Trousers Clarke managed to persuade just 13 Labour MPs - one of whom was fervent Brownite Nick "Newcast...