Jeremy Corbyn has received a boost after a poll found he is backed by two-thirds of Labour activists.
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But former leader Mr Miliband, who quit after the party’s general election defeat in May, said “of course” Mr Corbyn is fit to lead the country.
Miliband made a rare media appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme presented by Jim Naughtie, who asked if Corbyn could become prime minister.
As Tory MPs mocked him from across the chamber, with shouts of “wrong speech”, Mr Corbyn hit back, saying: “I have no idea why Members opposite find food security such a amusing subject… or indeed the flow of arms and elicit funds that enabled groups like Isil to sustain and grow”.
“Jeremy Corbyn has doubled our membership and I’ve seen that myself in my own constituency as a constituency MP – and I think this is quite important”.
“I’m seeking to work out how do we use these new members so that we can do what we didn’t do fully under me, which is to become a community organisation that actually is a presence in communities up and down this country”.
Prime Minister David Cameron will present the case for action this week before asking parliament to vote, and looks set to receive the backing of a few Labor MPs despite Corbyn’s opposition to the strikes.
He added that he wouldn’t advise Corbyn on how to run the Labour party, saying he wouldn’t be a “backseat driver”. The body heading the party has concluded to formulize a new code of conduct that could silence the “very harmful leaks to the media” and curb the “very damaging way in which social media is being used”.
Although the far-right party drifted into irrelevance a long time ago, they can still occasionally crack us up with their utter stupidity.
The Labour leader is at odds with many of his MPs over a number of issues, particularly defence and foreign policy, while his response to the Paris attacks and the terror threat facing the United Kingdom has been criticised by a few of his MPs and shadow cabinet.
But Mr Miliband said he believed the party was in a stronger state now, in terms of its membership, than it was going into the election.
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His comments have already sparked a backlash from Labour Party MPs.
