Seumas Milne

Seumas Milne
Executive Director of Strategy & Communications for the Labour Party
In office
26 October 2015 – 4 April 2020
LeaderJeremy Corbyn
Preceded byBob Roberts
Succeeded byBen Nunn
Personal details
Born
Seumas Patrick Charles Milne

(1958-09-05) 5 September 1958 (age 66)
Dover, Kent, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Cristina Montanari
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(m. 1992)​
RelationsKirsty Milne (sister)
Children2
ParentAlasdair Milne (father)
EducationWinchester College, Hampshire
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Birkbeck, University of London
OccupationPolitical aide, journalist and writer

Seumas Patrick Charles Milne (born 5 September 1958)[1] is a British journalist and political aide. He was appointed as the Labour Party's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications in October 2015 under Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, initially on leave from The Guardian.[2][3] In January 2017, he left The Guardian in order to work for the party full-time.[4] He left the role upon Corbyn's departure as leader in April 2020.[5]

Milne joined The Guardian in 1984.[6] He was a columnist and associate editor there at the time of his Labour Party appointment, and according to Peter Popham writing for The Independent in 1997, was "on the far left of the Labour Party."[7][8][9] Milne is the author of The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners, a book about the 1984–85 British miners' strike which focuses on the role of MI5 and Special Branch in the dispute.[10][11]

  1. ^ Winchester College: A Register. Edited by P.S.W.K. McClure and R.P. Stevens, on behalf of the Wardens and Fellows of Winchester College. 7th edition, 2014. pp. 582 (Short Half 1971 list heading) & 588 (entry for Seamus Milne). Published by Winchester College, Hampshire.
  2. ^ Wintour, Patrick (20 October 2015). "Guardian journalist Seumas Milne appointed Labour head of communications". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Seumas Milne appointed Labour's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications". LabourPress: Labour Party press office. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  4. ^ Stewart, Heather (19 January 2017). "Seumas Milne quits Guardian for permanent Labour party position". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  5. ^ Syal, Rajeev (3 April 2020). "Keir Starmer poised to be announced new Labour leader". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Milne, Seumas". Writer's Directory. 2005. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  7. ^ Popham, Peter (31 March 1997). "Media families 7. The Milnes". The Independent.
  8. ^ Hannan, Daniel (10 July 2008). "My top five Leftie columnists". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012.
  9. ^ "In the air". London Evening Standard. 16 August 2006.
  10. ^ Andrew, Christopher (2009). The Defence of the Realm. London: Allen Lane. p. 677. n. 49, p. 968
  11. ^ "Seumas Milne". The Guardian.