Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
Miliband: Corbyn’s tough enough to lead Britain

ED MILIBAND believes Jeremy Corbyn is tough enough to beat the Tories and become the next prime minister.

The former Labour leader made a rare media intervention this weekend in which he branded the government a joke and backed his successor to secure victory in 2020.

Speaking to LBC Radio on Saturday, he was asked whether he could envisage Mr Corbyn in Downing Street.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
Corbyn with YP Cymru delegates at the Aberystwyth Your Party Cymru founding conference
YP Cymru inaugural conference / 19 July 2026
19 July 2026

by David Nicholson, Wales reporter

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend his final scheduled Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, July 15, 2026
Parliament / 15 July 2026
15 July 2026

Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025
Labour Party / 15 November 2025
15 November 2025

As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership