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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Miliband is a fool if he goes for the leadership because Labour are going to lose the next General Election and he won't want to be the losing leader of the party I'm sure.It would kill his political career.I think they will keep Brown for that reason.
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It depends when.
If Milliband does succeed Brown now, he will just inherit Brown's problems and legacy, which will tarnish Milliband by association. By the time the election rolls around, things would be even worse and Milliband wouldn't stand a chance. What I suspect will happen is that Labour will wait until the latest posssible moment before the next election (a few months, give or take), when the least can go wrong, install Milliband as PM and herald it as a new era, a fresh start and try to convince the public to give Milliband a clean slate to work from. If they can pull it off, then they do stand a chance as it will be an election between two young progressive guns on a fairly equal ground.