Nobody likes a poor loser but I can imagine how annoyed Davis Miliband must be to have lost out on the Labour Leadership to his younger brother who was only elected to parliament for the first time in 2005. David, 45, has spent the week insisting that this is his brothers chance to shine after being beaten by Ed, 40, by a mere 1.3% of the vote. And hasn't this loss caused some sibling problems, as David openly disagrees with his brother at Ed's fist speech.
At the beginning of Labour's annual political, the newly appointed young Labour leader set about to distance himself from past mistakes of his predecessors to the distain of his older and bitter brother David.
When Labour's new leader declared that the Iraq war was wrong, the typical ‘Blairite and Brownite’ politicians, David and other former ministers who voted for the war - Alistair Darling, Jack Straw and Andy Burnham - sat stony faced and resentful. Not so Harriet Harman. Seeing her clap, David turns to her and angrily demands to know "you voted for it, why are you clapping?" This being caught on camera-of course. This has caused controversy as it seems that David will most likely to leave front line politics due to his resentment toward his brother.
Both Miliband brothers claim that they still have a strong relationship but it is possible to tell that David and others from the Labour party deeply resent Ed's use of his opposition to the war to win the leadership contest.
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