Will David Miliband be offered a job in future Government?

This morning’s Times (£) charts the post-Westminster career of former Foreign Secretary and Labour leadership candidate David Miliband. Since standing down as an MP last April, he has worked as the President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian aid organisation.

However, the article suggests that Miliband could be offered a way back into politics in the next couple of years – but not on this side of the Atlantic. There are suggestions, far-fetched but apparently seriously discussed, that if Hillary Clinton become President in 2016 David could be offered a job in her administration. They report:

There is another reason to stay and make a success of his new job — the prospect of a Hillary Clinton White House. A Clinton victory in the 2016 US presidential election would deliver a vindication for Mr Miliband’s brand of centrist progressive politics over the more left-wing agenda pushed by his brother, a friend says.

More than that, however, there is some far-fetched talk of a role for Mr Miliband in the campaign and, if successful, in the administration itself. Just how a British citizen — indeed a former British foreign secretary — could hold a formal position in a US government is hard to imagine.

Yet the talk is real enough. “Yes, it gets discussed,” one person in the inner circle admits. Another says: “I certainly think that some sort of a global role could be a real possibility.”

With the relationship between the Miliband brothers supposedly warmer than at any point since the 2010 leadership contest, David could end up playing a fascinating and influential communicator role between the White House and Downing Street if both the Democrats and Labour win.