What's Milburn up to?

Charles Clarke has been having a pop at Gordon Brown with monotonous regularity, but what is fellow big-beast Alan Milburn up to? In an interview in the North, he does two interesting things: he proposes a Labour version of the Tory policy of education vouchers; and he becomes another Labour big beast to throw up the possibility of El Gordo losing the next election. And he does it unprompted, drawing a comparison with John Howard's loss in Australia:

"I think the election is up for grabs.... It's not about what the Opposition does, it's about what the Government does."