Seumas Milne

Executive Director of Strategy and Communications, Labour Party

Guardian journalist Seumas Milne took leave from his role at the paper to lead Labour’s communications, and is now responsible for ensuring beleaguered leader Jeremy Corbyn receives an effective press. On the far-left extreme of the Left, Milne’s appointment was controversial, regarded as a potential conflict of interest with his Guardian role and a reflection not of his skill in media management but of his political views chiming with Corbyn’s own. Milne is the son of former BBC director-general Alasdair Milne, and was educated at Winchester and Oxford – a background somewhat at odds with his politics. 

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