FORMER foreign secretary David Miliband is coming to Harrow today to meet local Labour supporters as part of his leadership campaign,

Harrow West MP Gareth Thomas yesterday backed the ex-minister and MP for South Shields in the battle to take the helm of Labour, which is now the second largest party in the House of Commons and the official opposition.

Mr Miliband toured Alexandra Avenue Health and Social Care Centre in Alexandra Avenue, South Harrow, last month with Mr Thomas in a bid to bolster the latter's re-election campaign.

This afternoon he will visit the West Harrow Labourt Party office in Blenheim Road, West Harrow, and speak to party activists and discuss the party's dramatic seizure of Harrow Council from the Conservatives at the local elections.