The Labour leader is listed throughout the leaked documents as a key ally in plotting Mr Brown’s leadership coup. He was handed the job of drawing up Mr Brown’s policies for government, including a 100-day plan and medium-term proposals.
He oversaw a small group of hand-picked academics and think tank leaders who began working on the project.
Mr Mr Miliband was one of the 2005 intake of Labour MPs that consolidated Mr Brown’s inner circle. It also included Ed Balls and Ian Austin, and gave Parliamentary positions to several of Mr Brown’s long-time aides.
The three new MPs were immediately part of the “small group” of allies around Mr Brown, which also included Sue Nye, Spencer Livermore and Douglas Alexander, who had been an MP since 1997.
Mr Alexander, who is now the shadow foreign secretary, was asked to prepare plans for an election in 2009, but his position was undermined by the deliberations over the bungled attempt to call an election in autumn 2007.
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