Seumas Milne
| Seumas Milne | |
|---|---|
| Opposition Executive Director of Strategy and Communications | |
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Assumed office 26 October 2015 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Bob Roberts (May 2015) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Parents | Alasdair Milne (father) |
| Alma mater |
Balliol College, Oxford Birkbeck, University of London |
| Occupation | Political aide, journalist and writer |
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 under new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, initially on leave from The Guardian. In January 2017, he left the paper to work for the party permanently.
Milne joined the newspaper in 1984. 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". 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.
Milne is the younger son of former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne and his wife Sheila Kirsten, née Graucob, who was of Irish and Danish ancestry. He attended Winchester College, where he stood in a mock election in 1974 as a Maoist Party candidate, and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. His sister Kirsty, who died in July 2013, was an academic and former journalist.
After graduating from Oxford University, Milne became the business manager of Straight Left, a monthly publication produced from 1979 by a pro-Soviet faction in the Communist Party of Great Britain. Its supporters were not exclusively communists: several left-wing Labour MPs with pro-Soviet bloc sympathies sat on its editorial committee; Milne was not a Communist Party member. Peter Popham wrote in a 1997 article for The Independent that "there is no mistaking that Seumas is on the far left of the Labour Party, of which he has been a member for 20 years".
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