The best possible Leader and our next Prime Minister  

By Patrick Stewart OBE The first time I heard David Miliband speak was some years ago at an event organised by Barry Sheerman in aid of the John Clare Trust.   I was impressed that a senior cabinet member felt the English peasant poet and his memory was sufficiently important to warrant his attendance.   David spoke passionately of Clare.   He was eloquent, witty…and brief.   I went home and told my partner that I had just met a future Prime Minister. I was to get to know much more about David Miliband as his presence in government   was increasingly felt but mostly as a result of spending twenty four hours with him in his South Shields constituency.   I heard and saw his dedication and love for his constituents, his concerns for a corner of the UK which had known more than its fair share of difficulties and chanllenges.   I saw that this was not just a young high flier with...