Exclusive: Alan Milburn says that the changes announced this week in the wake of demands from the Liberal Democrats and opposition from the health establishment represent a "disaster."

When a Conservative candidate for the European Parliament called the NHS a mistake it was bound to cause offence. It also reminds us just what kind of people sit behind David Cameron in the Conservative Party. Now John Prescott has intervened in the debate. He’s calling on David Cameron to back of sack Daniel Hannan. My

Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister, is set for a shock return to government as an adviser to David Cameron, it can be revealed. The leading Blairite has been offered the role of "social mobility tsar" by the Prime Minister, with a remit to examine ways of boosting the chances of underprivileged children. Earlier this summer he appointed Frank Field, the Labour MP for Birkenhead, to lead an i...

When Alan Milburn first returned to the Labour front bench I wrote that his rehabilitation could potentially mean big trouble for the Conservatives. Mr Milburn believed in the kind of radical reforms to the public services (most notably the NHS) that David Cameron should have had the nerve to advocate. If Labour were to embrace the Milburn programme before the next election, I thought, it cou...

The weekend media was full of the news of Alan Milburn’s putative return to front-line politics with his appointment to a role advising the Coalition Government on policies to promote social mobility. Reaction to the news has been mixed. John Prescott, never one to mince his words when he can mangle them instead, spat out

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott attacked David Cameron today for failing to take action against his director of communications amid the phone tap allegations.

John Prescott has criticised David Cameron for his "relaxed" attitude towards his director of communications Andy Coulson who is currently embroiled in allegations over phone tapping.

David Miliband has lined up Alan Milburn to be Chancellor of the Exchequer if he replaces Gordon Brown as Prime Minister. I don’t know enough about how the people actually in the Labour Party (whichis the electorate Miliboy is concerned about) regard Milburn. I do remember what Alfie thought of him though. young snotty Alan Milburn from

(Go 4th) John Prescott on the Go 4th blog, has been laying into Dan Hannan's recent comments about the NHS, the interesting thing is that David Cameron is silent over this issue! If there is one area Labour respect Cameron over, it is his comments about the good and hard work the NHS does and therefore it would be good to see Cameron take Dan Hannan to task over this! It will be intriguing to...

Oh dear.  The Twitter wars are continuing apace, now that David Cameron has risen to John Prescott's challenge of a debate on the NHS.  The mediators are the Manchester Evening News, who have just published Cameron's response to Prescott on their Twitter feed.  So what is it?  Erm, this: "The real question is why won't Labour match the Conservatives' pl...