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    Ed is making his move.................

    Secret memo shows key role for Blairites in Labour's election team
    Alastair Campbell and Alan Milburn to advise Ed Miliband, according to leaked plan that will infuriate party left

    After what a source said were heated arguments, deputy leader Harriet Harman will attend weekly meetings. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

    New Labour big-hitters Alastair Campbell and Alan Milburn, as well as a batch of other advisers from the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown eras, are to make a dramatic return to Ed Miliband's general election team, according to a top-secret memo obtained by the Observer.

    The document - Proposed General Election 2015 Meeting Structure - drawn up in the office of Douglas Alexander, chair of campaign strategy, will infuriate many on the party's left, who believed that Miliband had moved on from New Labour's approaches to campaigning and policy.

    As well as detailing meetings between Campbell and the Labour leader, the memo says there will be a select "Sunday group" including two former aides to Peter Mandelson - Ben Wegg-Prosser and Patrick Loughran - Blair's former press officer, Matthew Doyle, and DJ Collins, another former adviser with New Labour links.

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