David Miliband today said he was “incredibly proud” of his brother Ed, who beat him in the race for the Labour Party leadership.
With the British shadow foreign secretary considering his future following Saturday’s narrow defeat he told the Labour Party conference he was “honoured and humbled” by the support he had received.
“Ed is a special person to me. Now he is a special person to you,” he told delegates in Manchester.
David Miliband has not yet revealed whether he will stand for election to serve in his younger brother’s shadow cabinet.
He was not originally scheduled to make a formal speech today, but revealed he had been asked last night to address the conference.
Making a joke about his defeat, he said: “As it happens on my computer, in a couple of files marked ‘Saturday, version seven’ and ‘Tuesday, version 23’ it just so happens I’ve got a couple of speeches to draw on this morning.
“But don’t worry, I’m not going to give them.”
He told the conference: “I’ve been incredibly honoured and humbled by the support that you have given me. But we have a great new leader and we all have to get behind him”.
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