Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel "Ed" Milibandis a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. He has been the Member of Parliamentfor Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He and his brother, David Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 December 1969
CityFitzrovia, England
It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.
This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.
I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses
Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.
I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.
We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.
One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must succeed or fail together, banks must lend to small businesses so we can get the growth and jobs we need for the future. As things stand, that is not happening enough. Lending was down £10.8billion last year.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.