Heather Stewart
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438 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Heather Stewart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Gordon Brown resigned.
David was seen as the more obvious choice, wasn't he?
Yeah, exactly.
And David was, you know, had been foreign secretary, obviously, and was seen as a very sort of plausible uh candidate for leader.
Um and then you had this extraordinary situation.
Don't know if you can imagine it in your family.
I'd like to think, you know, my sibling and I would be able to sort it out between us.
But um both of them ended up standing for the Labour leadership.
It was portrayed at the time as Ed was somehow stabbing David in the back.
I'm not sure if it was stabbing David and David wasn't stabbing Ed, to be honest.
But I suppose so, I suppose so.
But the outcome of this sort of fierce sibling rivalry was that Ed Miliban won the Labour leadership and David Miliban decided he wouldn't join his brother's shadow cabinet.
Well part of it's about healing, right, after a an extremely difficult defeat.
You know, Labour was in power at the time of the global financial crisis and the Conservatives under David Cameron and George Osborne were very, very good at sort of nailing that on Labour and spent some of their first years in power.
Essentially suggesting that Labour had sort of bankrupt Britain or bust us or whatever.
And so that was quite a difficult thing to wrestle with the legacy of a government that you have been part of.
You know, and to some extent there was a feeling that Ed didn't do enough, I think, to repudiate in some way.
Heather, you know I'm thinking of the gaffes.
I'm thinking of
Bacon sandwich.
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