Ed Miliband Mulls Labour Leadership Bid As Cabinet Tries To Rally Support For Starmer

Wes Streeting is expected to fire the starting gun on the contest tomorrow.

Ed Miliband is mulling a Labour leadership bid as a ‘stop Streeting’ candidate if the health secretary fires the starting gun on a contest as soon as tomorrow.

The health secretary is expected to quit the cabinet and announce that he is challenging Keir Starmer in the wake of Labour’s drubbing in last week’s elections.

Labour sources say Miliband, who led the party between 2010 and 2015, is taking soundings from MPs before deciding whether to run as a soft-left candidate to stop Streeting becoming prime minister.

One said: “His team have gone dark – they are definitely organising.”

Significantly, Miliband has not commented publicly since Starmer delivered a major speech on........

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