Et tu Brute

I come to praise Caesar not to bury him!

Back on the 13th. April I asked whether David Miliband, the South Shields MP and Foreign Secretary, had the killer instinct;

But most importantly, does Miliband have a killer instinct, does he know the feel of the cold boned handle of the knife pointed towards his bosses back? He had a chance when Blair hot footed it towards the piles of cash, but he failed to take it.

Is it now possible that after seeing Labour’s position in the polls continuing to deteriorate, that Miliband has now joined those Labour MPs who have had a whiff of the Prime Minister’s blood, and that his wiry fingers are now entwined around the handle of that knife?

Journalist Shane Greer picks his way through the code and spin in Miliband’s statement yesterday and suggests that the South Shields MP may indeed be requiring us to read between the lines.

But then again maybe Miliband senses a change in the wind. Let’s not forget that a leadership challenge from Miliband was not out of the question in the spring of last year when Brown’s strength was beyond question; now that Brown is in a position of great weakness why wouldn’t Miliband revisit the prospect of leadership?

With Lord “cashpoint” Levy suggesting that Tony Blair viewed Gordon Brown as a loser in a contest against David Cameron, it is entirely possible that a round of knife sharpening is now taking place.

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