Whilst on the subject of challengers to the Prime Minister,the New Statesman this week interviews David Miliband currently on a fact finding tour of Afghanistan but last year propelled into the leadership speculation by his article in the Guardian.
The foreign secretary is
a politician of unusual integrity - and that can be part of his trouble. He believes that, in diplomacy, "you do not say one thing in private and another in public. You do not say one thing to one group and something else to another."
And this may have led to the events of last August when
A grave problem for him is that his high intelligence, and sarcastic wit, can be mistaken for arrogance.
Talking to Jason Cowley he maintains that he was not making a bid for the leadership
People were very worried. We'd just lost a by-election, and the whole party wanted the government to pull together and pull through. What I did was about cabinet ministers fulfilling their responsibility to speak for the whole government and to speak for the party.
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