Ed Miliband
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| The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP |
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.jpg/225px-Miliband,_Ed_(2007).jpg) Ed Miliband speaking at the 2007 Labour Party conference. |
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| Assumed office 28 June 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
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| Preceded by | Hilary Armstrong |
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Member of Parliament
for Doncaster North |
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| Assumed office 5 May 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Kevin Hughes |
| Majority | 12,656 (40.1%) |
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| Born | 24 December 1969 St Pancras, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Religion | Judaism |
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969, St Pancras, England) is a British economist and politician. He has been chairman of the Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, which directs the UK's long-term economic planning. He was elected Labour Member of Parliament for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North in the 2005 general election. He was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the Cabinet Office on 28 June 2007 making him and his brother David Miliband the first brothers to serve in Cabinet since Edward and Oliver Stanley in 1938. Miliband was also appointed to the Privy Council as he works in close proximity to papers of state and The Queen.
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[edit] Early life
Miliband is the son of Marion Kozak and the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband (son of Polish-Jewish parents from Warsaw) who fled Belgium during the Second World War. He went to Haverstock Comprehensive School (now called Haverstock School Business & Enterprise College) on Haverstock Hill in Chalk Farm. He read PPE at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Economics at the London School of Economics. As a teenager, he reviewed films and plays on LBC Radio's Young London Programme, presented by Clive Bull[citation needed]. 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 Gordon Brown the following year. In 2003–4, he spent a year's sabbatical at Harvard University, as a visiting lecturer in government.
[edit] In government
In early 2005 he resigned from HM Treasury and, in May, was elected to Parliament. In Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle of 5 May 2006 he was made the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office.[1]
In June 2007, he was appointed Cabinet Office minister in Gordon Brown's first Prime Ministerial cabinet and given the task of drafting Labour's manifesto for the next general election. [2]
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[edit] External links
- Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster North The website of Ed Miliband MP.
- Ed Miliband MP on The Guardian’s Ask Aristotle
- Ed Miliband MP on TheyWorkForYou.com
- In the house of the rising sons, February 28, 2004 article about the Miliband family from The Guardian
- BBC Politics
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Member of Parliament for Doncaster North 2005 – present |
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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 2007 – present |
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| Minister for the Cabinet Office 2007 – present |
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