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Ed Miliband has said Jeremy Corbyn was not to blame for the failed Remain campaign.

He said the referendum result reflected deafness in Westminster to problems outside London and a wider discontent about jobs and housing. “I don’t think we should blame Jeremy Corbyn for the seismic earthquake,” he said at the Glastonbury festival on Saturday.





The task ahead was to focus beyond party politics and the future of the country, he told a small crowd in a muddy arena. “Part of the problem is that Westminster has been talking to itself too much.”

Miliband said Labour’s political vision for a post-Brexit Britain was “not there yet” and called on the left to regroup: “Our task is to come up with that vision and to use this opportunity to recognise what’s driven this decision.”

The former leader is the only senior Labour figure to appear at Glastonbury after both Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell pulled out of scheduled panel discussions.

Miliband the exit vote reflected years of pent-up “legitimate grievances” about jobs, housing as well as immigration. “This is a moment when many people are feeling fear but, in my view, we have got to accept the vote and then shape it [the future] around

progressive causes,” he said.

He also called on David Cameron to ratify the Paris climate change agreement as his last act in office.

