Clarity, Pride and Principle?

 

David Milliband has praised Keir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour Party: “I am proud to be Labour again. He's brought back clarity, pride, principle to the work of opposition and I think it's been really good to see." He went on to attack Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership as years of ‘vacillation’ and “betrayal’.

His father Ralph Milliband would not have agreed and could have been referring to his son when he wrote “ The Labour Party have always conceived their proposals and policies as a means, not of eroding— let alone supplanting— the capitalist system, but of ensuring its greater strength and stability … Far from seeking to surround themselves with men ardent for reform and eager for change in radical directions (They) have been content to be served by men much more likely to exercise a restraining influence upon their own reforming propensities … Pious references to the Labour Party being a ‘broad church’ which has always incorporated many different strands of thought fail to take account of a crucial fact, namely that the ‘broad church’ of Labour only functioned effectively in the past because one side – the Right and Centre – determined the nature of the services that were to be held, and excluded or threatened with exclusion any clergy too deviant in its dissent.”

Now that Jeremy Corbyn has been summarily excluded and put back in the church pews, David has hinted at a return to UK politics (he was Foreign Sec, pro-war and responsible for collaborating with the US on renditions) At the moment he is in New York as CEO of the International Rescue Committee. Mind you with his $1 million salary he will have to take a pay cut.

 

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