Is Milburn trying to out Tory David Cameron?

Patients' passports were an element of the 2005 Conservative manifesto. We didn't win and the plan was dropped when DC became party leader, Alan Milburn has resurrected it. Blair loyalists have form when it comes to picking up Conservative ideas and saying how good they would be.

Milburn has about as much influence over future Labour policy as I have and these comments cannot be part of a leadership pitch (unless he plans to lead the Conservatives) so why do them? I think that they could be a way of stirring up a row amongst Tories.

The comments on inheritance could have set the cat amongst the pigeons and there is still some support for passports within the party. Coming so soon after David Cameron's NHS promise I can't help but think that there is more to this than meets the eye.