Ed Miliband: Standing against my brother was hard but we’re moving on

Brothers in arms? Ed and David at the Labour party conference in 2010

The Labour leader has been on Woman’s Hour where the conversation turned to accusations from Conservatives that Mr Miliband stabbed his brother in the back, or indeed the front.

He said that taking on his brother was a “hard” process but that the brothers are “moving on”.

“What drove me to it was a sense that the Labour Party needed to move on from New Labour. We offered different things to the Labour Party.

“I felt I was the person who would move us on best from New Labour. In the end the Labour Party made its decision and yes it was hard, absolutely it was hard. My mum’s a pretty stoical person, she had got through much harder things than that. We’re moving on, David and me. He’s got a great job in America.”