Seumas Patrick Charles Milne was born on 5 September 1958 and is a British journalist and political aide.
20 Facts About Seumas Milne
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Seumas Milne 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.
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Seumas Milne left the role upon Corbyn's departure as leader in April 2020.
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Seumas Milne was educated at Tormore School, a boys' independent preparatory school in Aberdeen, followed by Winchester College, a public school in Hampshire.
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Seumas Milne's sister Kirsty Milne, who died in July 2013, was an academic who had previously been a journalist.
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Seumas Milne defended Gott against these allegations, which he thought "seemed absurd", and claimed the journalists who had written the expose of his friend were connected to MI5.
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Seumas Milne was Comment Editor for six years from 2001 to 2007.
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Seumas Milne was moved to his role as associate editor in 2007, according to Peter Wilby because he was building up too many writers in his own image, and devoting too much space to Palestine.
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Seumas Milne has reported for The Guardian from the Middle East, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe and South Asia, and has written for Le Monde Diplomatique and the London Review of Books.
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Seumas Milne is reported to have lobbied within The Guardian in 2015 for editor-in-chief Katharine Viner to succeed Alan Rusbridger in the post.
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On 20 October 2015, it was announced that Seumas Milne had been appointed to the team around Corbyn, elected party leader the previous month, as the Labour Party's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications.
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Seumas Milne left The Guardians staff in January 2017, when it became known he was working permanently for Corbyn.
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In early October 2015, a few weeks before his appointment was announced, Seumas Milne was interviewed by the Russian government-funded RT television network while the Labour Party conference was in progress.
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On 21 January 2016, Seumas Milne was reported by Andrew Grice of The Independent to be aligned with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell in a power struggle between two factions in Corbyn's team.
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Seumas Milne was featured asserting that Corbyn's line of attack as Leader of the Opposition for Prime Minister's Questions was leaked to the Conservative government.
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Internal emails passed to BBC News were alleged by Labour "Remainers" to show Seumas Milne minimizing party leader Corbyn's role in the Remain campaign.
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Seumas Milne contributed a foreword to Stasi State or Socialist Paradise, a book by John Green and Bruni de la Motte about East Germany.
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Seumas Milne has been a vocal critic of the war on terror, the wars in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.
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Seumas Milne attended the Valdai Discussion Club conference in Sochi, where he conducted a discussion in 2014 with Putin and former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin, opening a session there entitled "New Rules or No Rules in the Global Order", and his expenses were paid for by the organisers of the event.
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Seumas Milne married Cristina Montanari, an Italian-born director of an advertising firm, in 1992.