If the incoming prime minister goes for Ed Miliband, his government is over before it has started, writes John Rentoul A ndy Burnham has kept his thinking about who would be in his cabinet well shielded from journalists, which means that a lot of the commentary tends to repeat the assumption that Ed Miliband would be chancellor . That assumption is built on three facts. One, Miliband is close to Burnham: they share similar soft-left politics, and Miliband has shared some of his staff and allies