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| Front pages: Blairite 'return' among politics stories | Front pages: Blairite 'return' among politics stories |
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| On a day when every paper leads with a different story, many headlines have a political flavour. | On a day when every paper leads with a different story, many headlines have a political flavour. |
| Most eye-catching is the Observer which says it has seen "a secret memo" revealing that some of New Labour's biggest and most controversial names, including Alastair Campbell, are set to return to help Ed Miliband fight the 2015 general election. | |
| The Sunday Times has news that MPs are in line for an 11% pay rise - despite party leaders' objections - while the Mail on Sunday has a story on a UK Independence Party councillor, based on a 2008 video. | |
| Elsewhere, the disruption caused to flights by telephone problems is covered by the Sunday Express, which fears it doesn't bode well for the Christmas getaway. | Elsewhere, the disruption caused to flights by telephone problems is covered by the Sunday Express, which fears it doesn't bode well for the Christmas getaway. |
| Discussing the papers for the BBC's News Channel, Nigel Nelson, political editor of the Sunday People, said suggestions of a Blairite return "will not go down awfully well with a lot of Labour MPs", not least because until now, Ed Miliband has done all he can to distance himself from that era. | |
| "Provided they stick to tactics and keep out of policy it might work," he said, but that might be hard with Alastair Campbell, for example, who "has always seen policy and presentation as one thing. They're not separate... the presentation must be part of the policy." | |
| London Evening Standard columnist Mihir Bose said: "Isn't Labour's problem that Blair won three elections, which no other Labour prime minister had done, and they need the skill of winning those elections... whatever the policy?" |