If Labour is out, does David Miliband want the job as High Representative in the EU?

Charlemagne's notebook The Economist: "A lot of people in Luxembourg took his speech to be a Miliband manifesto for the job of High Rep. It was striking to me that some of the same diplomats who are most hostile to the idea of a President Tony Blair were quite positive about the idea of a High Rep Miliband."

UK is quite problematic when it comes to the EU. One third of Tories want to leave the EU, and that's how the wind is blowing according to Miliband in his speech, and they will in all probability win the election in the spring since they lead with a 17% margin in the polls. Charlemagne uses his post to guess on what the speech of David Miliband at the IISS might mean. He also brings forward information that could be interpreted as if Miliband did not believe necessarily in British National sovereignty. A true federalist.

I read Miliband's speech (link in Charlemagne's post) and he claims that UK would be marginilized even by the US if not in the EU. I wonder? Otherwise Miliband's view of the EU as bound to more expansion worries me. I have called it the fallacy of Alexander the Great before. Well, I believe in a strong Europe but the Eurobarometer polls clearly state in post after post that the English are not with the project population wise. It seems Charlemagne might be right and that Miliband is looking for something interesting to do after the change of government in the UK next spring.