What’s Barefaced and Cheeky and Goes Up and Down?
In from Manchester via the BBC:
David Miliband has dismissed a BBC story that he was overheard saying he wanted to avoid a “Heseltine moment” in his conference speech as “hearsay”.
The foreign secretary, who has been at the centre of leadership rumours, said the BBC “should know better”.
He paid tribute to Mr Brown in his speech but aides were heard telling him it was being given “six out of ten”.
A BBC journalist heard him reply: “I couldn’t have gone any further. It would have been a Heseltine moment.”
The private comment, overheard in a lift, was an apparent reference to the Conservative former deputy PM Michael Heseltine, who challenged the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who was eventually succeeded by John Major.
Wearing my “oh no here we go again” hat, I’m not surprised. Bearing in mind what this government and its Ministers do every day, I know what I think.
Is the denial true? Well, I’m the Queen of Sheba.
From Wardman’s English Dictionary:
Hearsay (as applied to David Milliband): They Heard him Say It
(PSST: It was Mrs Thatcher’s fault for reprogramming the lift in 1975).
Of course if it isn’t true, he can always “Gilligan” the BBC.
Categories: All WW, Labour, News - Current Affairs, Party Conferences 2008, Politics
