Brotherly love: David Miliband criticises Ed’s campaign

David Miliband has criticised his brother’s General Election campaign and ruled himself out of running for the Labour leadership. The elder Miliband runs a New York charity after quitting U.K. politics when his younger brother beat him to the Labour leadership in 2010. He has told the BBC that voters “didn’t want what was being offered” by Ed Miliband’s campaign.

The answer is … never end up in a position where the electorate think you are going backwards rather than addressing the issues of the future.

David Miliband, former MP

After predictions from pollsters of a close election, Labour ended up finishing almost 100 seats behind David Cameron’s Conservatives. The party was all but wiped out in Scotland by the Scottish National Party, which won 56 out of 59 seats north of the border. The defeat left Ed Miliband with little option but to resign, a decision he announced within hours of the scale of his party’s defeat becoming apparent. The Parliamentary Labour Party has been meeting to decide on a timetable to elect a new leader.

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