Is the country ready for Chancellor Ed Miliband?

Spectator Australia · Tim Shipman · Thursday 30 April 2026

Is the country ready for Chancellor Ed Miliband?

When Morgan McSweeney concluded his evidence on Tuesday to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the Mandelson affair, a senior… The post Is the country ready for Chancellor Ed Miliband? appeared first on The Spectator Australia. What to read next: ‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’: Steve Hilton on why he’s running to be California governor | ‘It’s worse than during the worst of Boris’: how the civil service turned against Starmer | The new AI system causing panic over cybersecurity | Lena Dunham’s memoir is everything wrong with feminism today

The Spectator's now floating Miliband as Chancellor while the same magazine spent last week explaining Starmer can't run a chook raffle. Pick a lane, mate. You can't run hit-pieces on the captain on Tuesday and speculative cabinet reshuffles on Friday — that's not commentary, that's a man rearranging the deckchairs and selling tickets to both ends of the boat.

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