David Miliband ‘will not campaign’

Ed Miliband has said that his brother, David, will not be returning to Britain to take part in the general election campaign.

The Labour leader said his older sibling – who he defeated for the leadership in 2010 – would be concentrating on his job in New York running the International Rescue Committee charity.

“We had a bruising leadership contest four-and-a-bit years ago, he’s moved on from that, I’ve moved on from that,” he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain

“He’s got his own thing that he’s doing and I think he wants to carry on focusing on that. One of the reasons he left after the leadership contest was because he didn’t want the soap opera.”

Mr Miliband dismissed the controversy over the disclosure that he has two kitchens in his north London home.

“This election isn’t going to be decided by my kitchen or kitchens, it’s going to be decided by what’s happening to people in their lives,” he said.

While he said that he was confident that he would win the general election on May 7, he insisted that he was not yet “measuring the curtains” for No 10.

“I think that we are going to win the election but I’m not measuring the curtains and I think it’s really important we don’t do that,” he said.