child sex abuse and leading calls for an inquiry into allegations of historical child sex abuse by senior figures at Westminster.

He was a vocal critic of Ed Miliband and in an article for the Daily Telegraph on Thursday he said Labour needed to "step out if its Metropolitan comfort zone" and "reach out to the country once more."

Keir Starmer - ruled out

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The former director of public prosecutions has only just become an MP after being elected in Frank Dobson's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras, in North London at the general election.

He was forced to rule himself out of the race to be Labour leader following a social media campaign urging him to stand.

He said he was "flattered" by the campaign but the party neededsomeone with "more political experience".

David Miliband - cannot stand in election

The older brother of ex-leader Ed, David Miliband was frontrunner to replace Gordon Brown in 2010, until his sibling beat him by a whisker.

A former foreign secretary and MP for South Shields, he was the Blairite choice for leader but eventually quit Parliament to become head of the International Rescue Committee charity in New York in 2013.

Speaking to the BBC from the US on the Monday after the general election, Mr Miliband criticised his brother's campaign in the 2015 general election, saying he and Mr Brown had "allowed themselves to be portrayed as moving backwards from the principles of aspiration and inclusion that are the absolute heart of any successful progressive political project".

While he acknowledged the two men