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    Lord Mandelson mounts final offensive to save Tony Blair's EU presidency campaign
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    In a significant intervention, the Business Secretary also appeared to dismiss David Miliband's emergence as front running candidate to be EU "foreign minister" should Mr Blair fail in his presidential bid. "I believe that David Miliband will be playing a very meaningful and effective role in Europe as Britain's Foreign Secretary" he said. "I can see absolutely no sign in anything that he has said or done to indicate he wants another job. Full Article at The Telegraph
    I believe that David Miliband will be playing a very meaningful and effective role in Europe as Britain's Foreign Secretary
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
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Lord Mandelson mounts final offensive to save Tony Blair's EU presidency campaign
  1. The point I will keep coming back to today is that we have a problem of leadership in Europe and political willingness to drive change.
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
  2. I can see absolutely no sign in anything that he has said or done to indicate he wants another job. Indeed, I detect quite the opposite. Some people may choose to hallucinate on this subject but I am not going to do so.
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
  3. Berlin is going to make your mind up time for Britain. Is it Blair or Miliband? If Brown dithers he might get neither
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
  4. One of Europe's key deficits is leadership. Lisbon is very valuable and certainly gives us a new institutional toolkit. But it is personalities and policies that will make the difference
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
  5. Tony Blair's ability to broker compromises is outstanding. He brokered very radical change and reform in the British Labour Party and built up a consensus behind the thinking and policies of New Labour. That was not easy and I saw him do the same in Northern Ireland where change was brought about
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
  6. That is not an advertisement for his candidature, he can and will argue for himself if he wishes to present himself for this role.
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago

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