David Miliband: European left is fragmenting as the right is unifyingIn LSE speech, Miliband names six countries with a history of centre-left rule that are now governed by rightwing parties Allegra Stratton guardian.co.uk Tuesday 8 March 2011 20.49 GMT Social democratic parties across Europe are losing elections on an "unprecedented scale", according to former foreign secretary David Miliband. He said the parties were "fragmenting as the right is unifying". He named six countries – Britain, Sweden, Germany, France, Holland and Italy – that he said had a "good claim to represent the historic heartland of European social democracy", but that...