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Alan Milburn’s private interests
Almost two decades ago he was the pro-PFI health secretary – now he and his family trouser millions from his consultancy work for private healthcare interests. Some political stances pay better than others, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
PROFITS: PFI man Alan Milburn
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
FORMER Labour health secretary Alan Milburn and his immediate family got a £2,141,000 payout from his corporate consultancy business this year, according to the latest accounts.
That’s up on their payout last year of £1.338m. Milburn himself gets the lion’s share of the money — by my rough calculation he will have taken about £1.5m of the dividend.
Milburn was the New Labour secretary of state for health from 1999-03 and he promoted NHS outsourcing, including buying NHS operations from private hospitals and PFI outsourcing, while in post.
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