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| − | '''Seumas Milne''' (born 1958) is a British journalist and political aide. In October 2015 he was appointed the [[Labour Party]]'s Executive Director of Strategy and Communications, on leave from ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wintour|first=Patrick|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/20/guardian-journalist-seumas-milne-labour-head-communications|title=Guardian journalist Seumas Milne appointed Labour head of communications|work=The Guardian|date=20 October 2015|accessdate=20 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = http://press.labour.org.uk/post/131566490399/seumas-milne-appointed-labours-executive-director|title=Seumas Milne appointed Labour’s Executive Director of Strategy and Communications|publisher=Labour Party press office |location = LabourPress|date=20 October 2015|accessdate=20 October 2015}}</ref>
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| − | Milne joined the newspaper in 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3438012247/milne-seumas.html|title=Milne, Seumas|work=Writer's Directory|year=2005|accessdate=29 October 2015}}</ref> He was a columnist and associate editor at ''The Guardian'' at the time of his Labour Party appointment, and according to Peter Popham writing for ''The Independent'' in 1997, "is on the far left of the Labour Party".<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-families-7-the-milnes-1276076.html "Media families 7. The Milnes",] ''The Independent'', 31 March 1997</ref><ref>Daniel Hannan [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/4579503/My_top_five_Leftie_columnists/ "My top five Leftie columnists",] ''The Daily Telegraph'', 10 July 2008</ref><ref>[http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-10086861/IN-THE-AIR.html "In the air",] ''Evening Standard'', 16 August 2006</ref> He is the author of ''The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners'', a book about the 1984–5 British miners' strike which focuses on the role of [[MI5]] and [[Special Branch]] in the dispute.<ref>Christopher Andrew ''The Defence of the Realm'', 2009, London: Allen Lane, p.677, and footnote 49, p.968</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardiancontacts/page/0,,328361,00.html Guardian Comment is Free] page for Seumas Milne.</ref>
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| − | Milne's journalism and Labour Party appointment were the subject of much negative media comment in October 2015. [[Peter Preston]], Milne's former editor at ''The Guardian'', commented on the ethical challenges faced by journalists-turned-political advisers and concluded about Milne's change of career path: "Houston, we have a challenge: let’s see if we have a problem."
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