Ed Miliband’s Critics Celebrate ‘Triumphant’ Block On His Potential Chancellorship | Steven Swinford

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“Certainly from the kind of triumphal noises we’re hearing, people really didn’t want him to be chancellor and they think they’ve won.” The Miliband critics behind the “operation” to block him from becoming chancellor believe they have won, and that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is likely to get the job, says The Times’s political editor Steven Swinford. Steven Swinford was speaking to Kate McCann and Stig Abell on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live Monday to Thursday, 6-10am. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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