Ed Miliband

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Ed Miliband (2015)

Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born December 24, 1969 in London ) is a British politician. He has been a Member of the British House of Commons for the Doncaster- North constituency since 2005 . From 2010 to 2015 he was the Labor Party leader and opposition leader.

Life

The Miliband couple at a Labor Party event (2011)

Ed Miliband was born the son of the Jewish Marxism theorist Ralph Miliband , who fled Belgium to Great Britain after the German invasion in 1940 . His mother Marion Kozak comes from a Jewish family in Poland and survived the Holocaust there as a toddler. His older brother is the British politician David Miliband . He describes himself as an atheist.

Miliband studied at Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford and obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts . He then graduated from the London School of Economics the degree of Master of Science for Economics . This was followed by a short job as a TV reporter. From 1997 he worked in various areas of business. In 2003/2004 he was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University .

In 2009, during a visit to Moscow, Miliband met the Soviet - Russian cousin of his father Sofja Davidovna Miliband , whose existence he was not aware of.

In May 2011, Miliband married his partner, lawyer Justine Thornton, with whom he has two children.

politics

In 1993 Miliband began his political career as a speechwriter and researcher for the Labor politician Harriet Harman . The following year he took on the same work for the then shadow chancellor Gordon Brown .

In 2005 Miliband was elected to the House of Commons. From May 2006 he was a State Secretary ( Parliamentary Secretary ) in the last cabinet of Tony Blair . In June 2007 he became a member of the first cabinet of Prime Minister Gordon Brown , first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the Cabinet Office , then as Minister for Energy and Climate Change . His brother David belonged to the same cabinet as British Foreign Secretary.

On September 25, 2010, the Labor Party elected Miliband as chairman. He received 51 percent of the vote in the last round of the election carried out after the instant runoff voting , while his brother David , who was also running, got 49 percent. In all previous rounds his brother had led. The decisive factor was the votes of the unions, the majority of whom were behind Ed.

While his brother emphasized the central importance of the "bourgeois classes", Ed Miliband had advocated a more left-wing , welfare state- oriented policy. He had also criticized certain aspects of the New Labor policy in advance , such as the excessive power that was granted to the markets. He said he had doubts about the war and the invasion of Iraq from the start.

In his role as leader of the Labor Party and opposition leader, he ran in the general election on May 7, 2015 for the post of prime minister against incumbent and chairman of the Conservative Party David Cameron . Labor received 30.8% of the vote and the Tories 36.9%. The day after this election, he resigned as party chairman. Jeremy Corbyn was elected to succeed him. After the early general election on December 12, 2019 , Boris Johnson remained Prime Minister; Corbyn announced his resignation. Corbyn's successor Keir Starmer appointed Miliband as Minister of Economics in his shadow cabinet on April 6, 2020. Until then, Rebecca Long-Bailey had held that post.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ed Miliband  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anshel Pfeffer : Ed Miliband prefers to avoid Israel . Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd , September 27, 2010, accessed September 10, 2014 .
  2. ^ Andrew Osborn: The Miliband family, Stalin and me - Sofia Davidovna Miliband, long-lost cousin of British Labor politicians Ed and David Miliband, tells Andrew Osborn of her life in Russia and how Europe's tumultuous politics tore her ancestors apart . In: The Telegraph . October 10, 2009 ( [1] [accessed June 18, 2020]).
  3. ↑ [2] Biography of the Cabinet Office in the National Archives, accessed September 26, 2010
  4. ↑ dpa: Labor elects Ed Miliband as party leader . On: Zeit Online , September 25, 2010. (Accessed September 26, 2010.)
  5. ↑ Peter Nonnenmacher: One Miliboy too many . In: Die Zeit , September 16, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Miliband, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miliband, Edward Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH London