David Miliband understood the truth about deficit reduction unlike the two Eds

The Telegraph have a fascianting article based on a leak of David Miliband's leaked labour leadership speech, a speech he never gave. The apearance of this along with the recent Ed Balls leaks leads me to believe that this is not a clever Conservative attack on Ed Balls, something I doubt the Conservative leadership could organise anyway, but an attack by Labour Blairites on the two Eds.

Here's part of The Telegraph's article:

'A leaked copy of the victory speech Mr Miliband planned to deliver last September showed that he wanted to tell his party it had to promise “lean government” and could not be “in denial” about the deficit.

The speech was never given because the leadership was won by his brother, Ed Miliband, who has since taken a different line on the economy, opposing the Coalition’s plans for gdp100 billion of public spending cuts.

The publication of his speech means David Miliband, an ally of Tony Blair, joins the list of Labour figures opposed to Ed Miliband’s economic policy, a list that also includes Alistair Darling, the former chancellor.

Had he won, David Miliband planned to tell Labour that the deficit “is the biggest argument in politics, and the biggest danger for us. George Osborne (the Chancellor) says we are in denial about the deficit. Because he wants us to be. So let’s not be. It is a test.”

Labour would only regain power when voters believed it was prepared to tackle public spending, David Miliband wanted to say. '