I don’t know why David Miliband’s opinion are always treated with such importance, apart from the obvious reason that the Tory press like him of course.
He was MP for only 12 years and he wasn’t a particularly outstanding minister.
Why his opinion should be valued so highly and above so many other Labour MPs I really don’t know.
Likewise Peter Mandelson whose utterances are treated like little pearls of wisdom despite the fact that he is a failed politician who had to be given the unelected post of European Commissioner after resigning in disgrace not just once but twice, ffs.
But again the Tory press likes the man who is “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”, so the failed politician who likes to regularly criticise the Labour Party is given all the publicity that he seeks.