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The Right Honourable
Ed Miliband

MP
Miliband at the 2007 Labour Party conference.
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
In office
3 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byOffice Created
Succeeded byChris Huhne
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
28 June 2007 – 3 October 2008
Prime MinisterGordon Brown
Preceded byHilary Armstrong
Succeeded byLiam Byrne
Member of Parliament
for Doncaster North
Assumed office
5 May 2005
Preceded byKevin Hughes
Majority12,656 (40%)
Personal details
Born (1969-12-24) 24 December 1969 (age 54)
St Pancras, United Kingdom
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
London School of Economics

Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010, firstly as the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and then as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He is the younger brother of David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, and together the two were the first siblings to sit in Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley and his brother Oliver in 1938.

After graduating from Oxford University, Miliband became a Labour Party researcher and rose to become one of then-Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants, being appointed Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers. Miliband was elected Labour Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North in the 2005 general election. Brown subsequently appointed him Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office in his first Cabinet on 28 June 2007. From 3 October 2008 to 11 May 2010, Miliband served as Secretary of State at the newly created Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Early life

Born in London, Miliband is the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Marion Kozak and the late Marxist intellectual Ralph Miliband (a Brussels native whose parents were from Warsaw), who fled Belgium during World War II.[2] He went to Haverstock Comprehensive School in the Chalk Farm area of London. As a teenager, he reviewed films and plays on LBC Radio's Young London programme as one of its "Three O'Clock Reviewers", and worked as an intern to Tony Benn[3]. Furthermore, he was in a band from the age of 13 to the age of 17, 'Squashed Psyche' where he and two friends made up a punk-rock outfit. However, this was only recreational and never went any further. After completing his A Levels, he read PPE at Corpus Christi College, Oxford gaining a BA, and Economics at the LSE where he obtained an MSc.

Political career

After a brief career in television journalism, he became a speechwriter and researcher for Labour politician Harriet Harman in 1993, and then for Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown the following year. In 1997, following Labour's landslide election victory, Miliband was appointed as one of Gordon Brown's special advisers with specific responsibility as a speechwriter. In 2003–4, he spent a year's sabbatical at Harvard University, to study and lecture at Harvard's Centre for European Studies,[4] during which time he was 'granted access' to Senator John Kerry and reported back to Brown on the Presidential hopeful's progress.[5] In 2004 he was appointed chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, directing the UK's long-term economic planning.

Doncaster North

In late March 2005, just weeks before the General Election, Ed Miliband was able to beat off a challenge from Michael Dugher, then a special advisor to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon,[6] to be the Labour candidate in the safe Labour seat of Doncaster North. Gordon Brown visited Doncaster North during the General Election campaign to support his former adviser.[7] Miliband was confirmed as the MP for the seat at 6.20 a.m..

Scottish Elections 1999

In 1999 he was involved in the process of building Labour's manifesto for the forthcoming Scottish Parliament elections.[8] He was spotted leaving the Scottish Labour Party's headquarters on the night that a key policy meeting was held, involving the Scottish Secretary and senior party officials, to consider the party's election strategy and details of Labour's manifesto. As a result Miliband resigned from his post as Special Adviser at the Treasury, to work on the Scottish election campaign.[9] It was reported that part of Miliband's Scottish role was to take charge of Labour's rebuttal operation.[10]

In government

In early 2005 he resigned from HM Treasury to stand for election and, in May, was elected to Parliament. In Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle in May 2006 he was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office.[11]

In June 2007, he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Cabinet Office minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in Gordon Brown's first cabinet.[12] This meant that he and his brother, David Miliband became the first brothers to serve in Cabinet since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. He was given the task of drafting Labour's manifesto for the next general election.

During 2009 Miliband was named by the Telegraph as one of the "saints" of the expenses scandal.[13]

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

On 3 October 2008, Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for the newly created Department of Energy and Climate Change.[14] in the cabinet reshuffle. On 16 October Miliband announced that the British government would legislate to oblige itself to cut greenhouse emissions by 80% by 2050, rather than the 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions previously announced.[15]

Labour Party Leadership Elections

On Friday 14 May 2010 he announced that he was going to stand as a candidate for the Leadership of the Labour Party (UK) following the resignation of Gordon Brown.[16] He is standing against his brother, David Miliband.

Personal life

His previous partner was former Blair aide Liz Lloyd, who went to school in Guildford with Miliband's ex Cabinet colleague James Purnell,[17][18] though they had separated by October 1998.[19] His current partner is Justine Thornton, a Cambridge-educated barrister. They met in 2004, and live together in north London – where he grew up. They have one son.[20][21] He was recently reunited with one of his family relatives in Moscow.[22]

References

  1. ^ http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/24801/ed-miliband-climate-change-can-unite-religions
  2. ^ Josephs, Bernard (22 December 2006). "David Miliband: Red to green in a generation". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 30 November 2009. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Benn, Tony (1995). The Benn Diaries. Arrow. ISBN 978-0099634119.
  4. ^ The Scotsman, 26 July 2002, p. 9
  5. ^ The Scotsman, 6 March 2004, p. 12
  6. ^ Yorkshire Post, 26 March 2005
  7. ^ Doncaster Free Press, 14 April 2005
  8. ^ The Scotsman, 6 April 1999, p. 1
  9. ^ The Scotsman, 8 April 1999, p. 11
  10. ^ The Scotsman, 23 April 1999, p. 13
  11. ^ "At-a-glance: Tony Blair reshuffle". BBC. 5 May 2006. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
  12. ^ "Brown unveils huge Cabinet revamp". BBC. 28 June 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
  13. ^ "MPs' expenses: The saints". London: the telegraph. Retrieved 13 August 2009.
  14. ^ Brown's Reshuffle BBC
  15. ^ "Tougher climate target unveiled". BBC. 16 October 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
  16. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8684063.stm
  17. ^ The Independent, 14 August 1997, p. 5
  18. ^ The Guardian, 31 December 1997, p. 19
  19. ^ The Evening Standard, 15 October 1998, p. 18
  20. ^ The Guardian, 4 June 2009, p. 6
  21. ^ The Independent on Sunday, 7 June 2009
  22. ^ Osborn, Andrew (7 October 2009). "Ed Miliband united with long-lost relative on Moscow phone-in show ". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
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