The thing is, Keith, the so-called centre ground has shifted so far to the right that someone who would in the past have been seen as being on the right of the Labour Party, like Milliband, can be cast as a left winger purely by being a shade to the left of the Blarites. Millaband was never any kind of left wing firebrand, nor did he claim to be. In this day and age, even Kenneth Clark is a dangerous subversive :-)