Labour’s campaign is “going pretty well”, according to his Ed Miliband’s brother David.
Ed Miliband, who won the Labour leadership contest from his brother in 2010, revealed he had been in touch with David during the campaign.
“Yeah. He’s been sending me encouraging words and we’ve been in contact and I think he thinks it’s going pretty well,” he told BBC Radio 5live’s John Pienaar.
Ed Miliband's strong performance in the general election has surprised his critics who thought that the campaign would unravel under sustained scrutiny.
Asked what advice David had for him, Ed replied: “To be myself, because that’s the best advice and that’s the advice he’s always given me and that’s what I’ve learnt most as Labour leader, that you put yourself before people.
“This is what I stand for, I’m never going to win a photo opportunity competition, notwithstanding ‘Milifandom’.
"I'm enjoying this campaign because it's an opportunity for me to say here's where I stand, this is how I want to change the country, and then the people decide. That's the extraordinary thing about our democracy."
However, he downplayed the idea of David taking a place in a Labour Cabinet in the future, saying David was happy in his job as chief executive of the New York-based charity International Rescue Committee.
"Look I'm think up to May 7, 10pm. That's where my focus is. David's happy doing the job he's doing in America. I'm focused on electing a Labour government."
Asked if he had "given up on having your brother by your side", Ed Miliband said: "Look I'm not anticipating that he's happy doing the job he's doing."