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Sat 08 Aug 2008Miliband has lit the fuse for leadership challenge to Brown
August offers just a brief respite for the beleaguered tenure of Gordon Brown, writes Frank Millar.
BRITISH FOREIGN secretary David Miliband maintains he is campaigning for nothing more than the success of the Labour government. But we may rest assured that Gordon Brown will be mightily relieved that the Milibandwagon has been parked while his cabinet colleague takes his family on a sunshine holiday. For with friends like Miliband we may be about to discover just how many enemies the beleaguered prime minister has amassed inside the Labour ranks.
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