David Miliband criticises brother Ed’s campaign

David Miliband has been on the BBC to talk about Labour’s bruising experience on Thursday and he is not pulling punches when it comes to his brother’s campaign.

He said that Labour had “allowed themselves to be portrayed as moving backwards from the principles of aspiration and inclusion that are at the absolute heart of any successful political project”.

Adding that whatever happens and whoever takes over there should “be no delusion, what happened, why it happened and the scale of the challenge “.

Asked if the Labour party made the wrong choice back in 2010 by chosing his brother Ed as leader David Miliband said that for his “own sanity” there is “no point in pressing the rewind button” and that “you don’t get second chances at things.

“You remain brothers for life and that’s something that has to be kept”, he added.

Mr Miliband, who now works in New York, said he was “obviously” not a candidate for the party’s leadership but that his brother’s departure will mean he may be freer to contribute to the debate over Labour’s future.