There are rumours swirling around Westminster, supposedly issuing from the elder
Miliband’s camp, that David Miliband already knows he’s lost. As we know, he has said he will serve loyally under Ed Miliband. But there has been enough reported bad blood between the
brothers to suggest that defeat would leave him inconsolable.

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