Don't Drift to the Left: A Warning From Kelly ; (1) On Her Resignation 'I Have Some Doubts About the Way It Was Handled ... But It Is Better to Have It All Settled '(2) On Embryology Bill 'I Think It Is a Conscience Issue and There Should Have Been a Free Vote '(3) On David Miliband 'He Is One of the Great Talents of the Cabinet a Real Asset and Star of the Future'

Evening Standard - London › September 29, 2008

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RUTH KELLY, the Cabinet minister who this week announced her resignation, today issued a stark warning to New Labour of a fatal "drift to the Left".

In her first newspaper interview since her resignation became public on the final day of Labour's conference, Ms Kelly told the Standard: "The danger is very clear. The centre ground was forged for Labour by Blair and Brown in the run-up to 1997. Now there are people who see an opportunity to row back on that."

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Don't Drift to the Left: A Warning From Kelly ; (1) On Her Resignation 'I Have Some Doubts About the Way It Was Handled ... But It Is Better to Have It All Settled '(2) On Embryology Bill 'I Think It Is a Conscience Issue and There Should Have Been a Free Vote '(3) On David Miliband 'He Is One of the Great Talents of the Cabinet a Real Asset and Star of the Future'

She said that the electoral consequences of such a shift would be "severe" and added: "We have to be bold and not ambiguous in taking the argument to our critics. It is really important that the Cabinet reaffirms...

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