In an article in the New Statesman, former foreign secretary David Miliband has suggested that his brother Ed Miliband has pushed the Labour party further away from power since the 1930s. David said in the article that Jeremy Corbyn is not single-handedly responsible for the party’s woes.
Miliband writes, “Brexit reflects the weakness of the left. Brexit was only possible because of Labour’s shift over the past ten years from a powerful covering majority to a secondary influence on national decision-making. The future of the left is about more than Labour, and about more than parliamentary representation, but the only id we understand this shift can the challenges of Brexit be addressed.”