Miliband may seek Shadow Cabinet role after leadership contest

Two days on from his resignation as Labour leader, Ed Miliband is thinking about being involved on the Labour front bench under the party’s next leader. The Guardian reports:

“Miliband is keen to take a role in the next Labour team, once a replacement as leader is found, potentially on the shadow front bench. He was previously shadow secretary of state for energy and climate change.

Miliband is still only 46 and has seen the model of Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader who went on to be secretary of state for work and pensions, as one example of how a defeated politician can recover, and remain of value to his party.”

Miliband is certainly far too young to be cast onto the political scrapheap, but would a new leader wish to immediately place him in their team? It’s far too soon to say…

Update: Miliband aide Anna Yearley says that reports Miliband is seeking a role in the Shadow Cabinet are “not true”: