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Vidal, John; Jowit, Juliette (24 April 2009). "Ed Miliband promises new era of clean coal– but who will pay?". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 26 April 2009. Instead of a laissez-faire system where companies told government what they wanted to build and where, government has decided that reducing climate change emissions cannot be left to the market. In March 2009, while Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Miliband attended the UK premiere of climate change film The Age of Stupid, where he was ambushed by actor Pete Postlethwaite, who threatened to return his OBE and vote for any party other than Labour if the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station were to be given the go-ahead by the government. [34] A month later, Miliband announced to the House of Commons a change to the government's policy on coal-fired power stations, saying that any potential new coal-fired power stations would be unable to receive government consent unless they could demonstrate that they would be able to effectively capture and bury 25% of the emissions they produce immediately, with a view to seeing that rise to 100% of emissions by 2025. This, a government source told the Guardian, effectively represented "a complete rewrite of UK energy policy for the future". [35] To tap into discontent with the Tories, Labour needs to turn left in economics while turning away from the brands of identity politics – Corbynite, woke and uber- Remainer – that define themselves by hostility to their own culture. Doncaster North parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". Archived from the original on 13 December 2019 . Retrieved 23 December 2019. Cowburn, Ashley (26 May 2016). "Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband are joining forces to warn about climate change". The Independent. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016 . Retrieved 10 October 2016.

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Bennett, Asa (4 November 2014). "15 Hilariously Awkward Ed Miliband Photos". HuffPost UK. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014 . Retrieved 1 October 2021. Bright, Martin (4 November 2010). "Ed Miliband: Hamas, Ken Livingstone and Jewish values". The Jewish Chronicle. London. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009. Another difficulty concerns the role Blair seems to want to play in renewing his party. The problem is not only that many activists would rather choke on their own vomit than accept him, or anyone like him, as their next leader. For the graduates who have become Labour’s key electoral constituency, Blair is a figure from another era.Riots: Miliband blames 'me first' culture". BBC News. 12 August 2011. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011 . Retrieved 10 September 2011. He’s doing a very important job’: Ed Miliband, then newly elected Labour leader, with David Miliband at the Labour party conference in Manchester, September 2010. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

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Following the death of former Prime Minister and Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher in 2013, Miliband spoke in a House of Commons sitting specially convened to pay tributes to her. He noted that, although he disagreed with a few of her policies, he respected "what her death means to the many, many people who admired her". He also said that Thatcher "broke the mould" in everything she had achieved in her life, and that she had had the ability to "overcome every obstacle in her path". [155] He had previously praised Thatcher shortly before the Labour Party Conference in September 2012 for creating an "era of aspiration" in the 1980s. [156]Cochrane, Alan; Johnson, Simon (5 September 2015). "Ed Miliband causes rift in Better Together campaign". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015 . Retrieved 6 June 2015. Miliband, Ed (23 October 2014). "Our Immigration Reform Bill will set out our new approach to make a real difference". The Labour Party. Archived from the original on 7 June 2015 . Retrieved 6 June 2015. He also set up the Socialist Register with Saville in 1964 and was influenced by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills, of whom he had been a friend. He published The State in Capitalist Society in 1969, a study in Marxist political sociology, rejecting the idea that pluralism spread political power, and maintaining that power in Western democracies was concentrated in the hands of a dominant class. [9]

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There is a kind of poetry in Ed Miliband’s magnum opus coming out at the present time. Along with Hartlepool and swathes of the north and Midlands, Labour has lost control of Durham County Council, which it had held since 1919. Miliband’s own Doncaster North Westminster seat is at risk. Keir Starmer’s pursuit of a fictitious centre ground has led the party into a blind alley. Labour desperately needs new thinking. Yet at this moment of crisis, Miliband has come forward with a restatement of progressive orthodoxy. Geoghegan, Ben (2 April 2012). "Ed Miliband launches Labour's local election campaign". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012 . Retrieved 19 April 2012.Tchorek, Kamil (24 June 2009). "David Miliband visits family grave in Poland". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013 . Retrieved 20 May 2013. Ed Miliband's partner Justine gives birth to second son". BBC News Online. 8 November 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009 . Retrieved 9 November 2010. Ed Miliband to take on brother David in leader battle". BBC News. 16 May 2010. Archived from the original on 9 February 2011 . Retrieved 9 June 2010. On 28 June 2007, the day after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Miliband was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, being promoted to the cabinet. [29] This meant that he and his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, became the first brothers to serve in a British cabinet since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. [30] He was additionally given the task of drafting Labour's manifesto for the 2010 general election. [31] He is confident there will be a chance for Labour when the Tories fail to deliver on their promises. “What you’ll see is a gap opening up between their rhetoric and the reality. They say they don’t want insecure jobs and all that, but they don’t actually do anything about it. They say they want a green revolution but they don’t believe in the role of the state to make that revolution happen.”

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After the war, Miliband resumed his studies at the LSE in 1946, and graduated with a first-class degree in 1947. [9] He began a doctorate on Popular Thought in the French Revolution, 1789–1794 in 1947, but did not complete his thesis until 1956. [9] After obtaining a Leverhulme research scholarship to continue his studies at the LSE, Miliband taught at the Roosevelt College (now Roosevelt University) in Chicago. He became a naturalised British subject on 28 September 1948. [15] In 1949 he was offered an assistant lectureship in political science at the LSE. [9] New Left: 1960–1994 [ edit ] In early 2005, Miliband resigned his advisory role to HM Treasury to stand for election. Kevin Hughes, then the Labour MP for Doncaster North, announced in February of that year that he would be standing down at the next election due to being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Miliband applied for selection to be the candidate in the safe Labour seat and won, beating off a close challenge from Michael Dugher, then a SPAD to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. [24]

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Ralph married Polish-born Marion Kozak in September 1961. [23] She was the daughter of a steel manufacturer, David Kozak, with a Polish Jewish heritage, and also one of his former students at the LSE. They made a home in Primrose Hill, and later in Bolto During his time as Labour leader, Miliband criticised the Conservative Leader and Prime Minister David Cameron for "sacrificing everything on the altar of deficit reduction", and has accused him of being guilty of practising "old politics", citing alleged broken promises on areas such as crime, policing, bank bonuses, and child benefit. [152]