Telegraph
"..With undisguised cheek, David Miliband is now urging anyone who will listen to "focus on the problems of the future", rather than dwell on the past, a sentiment echoed by his brother, who is keen for Labour to "move on". You can see why. For them, and us, recent history is a dreadful place to be.
It is where a dysfunctional clique took the United Kingdom into an illegal war, dismantled border controls, encouraged unprecedented immigration, debased educational standards, attacked the independence of our best schools and universities, botched devolution, eroded British sovereignty, pumped up a consumer debt bubble, ran our private pension system into the ground, messed up financial regulation and wrecked the country's balance sheet.
Culprits always want to move on. Victims, however, often cannot. In that sense (I never thought I would write this), Lord Mandelson has done Britain a favour. His autobiography – a marvellous compendium of score-settling, poison and betrayal – will be an enduring reminder of the New Labour horror show. Life without them in charge feels like coming up for air. "
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