David Miliband criticises Ed’s election effort
FORMER foreign secretary David Miliband criticised his younger brother Ed Miliband in a rare television interview yesterday.
The elder Miliband, who lost the Labour party leadership contest to Ed in 2010, told the BBC that voters “did not want what was being offered” by the Labour party in last week’s General Election.
David, who quit parliament and moved to New York in 2013 to work for the International Rescue Committee charity, said that the Labour party leadership had allowed itself to be portrayed as “moving backwards.”
There was “absolutely no point” blaming voters for Labour’s defeat, he added.
Ed Miliband resigned as Labour leader last Friday, after his party secured just 232 seats in the General Election.
David said he had no intention of succeeding his brother as the party’s next leader. And when asked whether Labour would be better off if he had been chosen as leader back in 2010, he said there was “no point in trying to press the rewind button in life”.
Meanwhile, former Labour supporter Lord Sugar said he had quit the party after constantly warning the Miliband team about its “anti business rhetoric.” Also, writing in City A.M. David Lammy, one of the Labour Party’s mayoral hopefuls, said the successful candidate for the job “must have a plan for working closely with business”.